NTPC Appoints Senior IAS Officer Diwakar Nath Misra as Government Nominee Director
In a regulatory filing submitted to stock exchanges, Maharatna power giant NTPC Limited announced that the President of India has officially appointed senior IAS officer Diwakar Nath Misra as a Government Nominee Director on its Board. Misra, who currently serves as Additional Secretary in the Ministry of Power, steps into this crucial oversight role as India’s largest power utility continues expanding its generation capacity and accelerating its transition toward clean energy sources.
His tenure on the NTPC Board will run concurrently with his posting in the Ministry of Power or until further official directives are issued. A 2000-batch officer of the Assam-Meghalaya cadre, Misra brings more than two decades of civil service experience across grassroots district administration and high-level policy formulation.
Over his career, he has held senior administrative posts across key central ministries, including Power, Finance, Commerce and Industry, Petroleum and Natural Gas, and Defence. This broad institutional background gives him deep insights into public administration, financial oversight, energy policy, and corporate governance in public sector enterprises.
During his tenure as Additional Secretary in the Ministry of Finance, Misra represented India at the Financial Action Task Force (FATF), presenting the country’s strategic priorities on international financial standards. Earlier in his career, while serving as Joint Secretary in the Ministry of Commerce and Industry.
He also spearheaded key institutional reforms designed to strengthen India’s agricultural export architecture, helping push agricultural export valuations past the benchmark $1 billion mark..Misra’s leadership experience in the energy domain is equally well established.
As Joint Secretary in the Ministry of Petroleum and Natural Gas, he contributed to shaping landmark policy frameworks for India’s upstream hydrocarbon sector, including the Hydrocarbon Exploration and Licensing Policy (HELP) and the Open Acreage Licensing Policy (OALP).
He has also previously served on the boards of major public sector energy undertakings such as Oil India Limited, Mangalore Refinery and Petrochemicals Limited (MRPL), and Indian Strategic Petroleum Reserves Limited (ISPRL). His latest induction onto the NTPC Board adds strong governance experience as the power giant works to balance thermal generation reliability with aggressive renewable expansion.
