NCM's Governing Council is the organisation's highest governance body. It approves NCM's strategic plan and annual budget; oversees technical and advisory quality standards; safeguards NCM's independence from commercial conflicts; represents NCM in engagement with government, DFIs, and international CCUS bodies; and appoints and reviews the Chief Executive Officer.
The Council meets quarterly in formal session. Council members serve three-year renewable terms and are appointed through a nominations process managed by the Council's Nominations and Governance Committee. NCM publishes an annual public accountability report covering strategic progress, advisory outputs, and governance disclosures.
NCM's Governing Council is constituted to represent all constituencies required for India's CCUS programme to succeed: industrial producers who are NCM's primary clients; scientific institutions who validate NCM's technical quality; policy and regulatory bodies whose framework decisions shape the investment environment; international CCUS practitioners who bring global operating experience; and civil society representatives who ensure NCM serves India's broader public interest.
The Governing Council is constituted by role and domain — not by individual prominence. NCM does not publish the identities of Council members. The expertise and institutional affiliations represented on the Council are disclosed below.
Serves as Chair of the Governing Council. Brings 30+ years of experience in India's energy policy at the senior most level — including oversight of India's bilateral clean energy partnerships with international CCUS programme countries. Provides the policy access and ministerial relationships NCM requires to develop India's CCUS regulatory framework.
Brings direct operational experience in CO₂-EOR, reservoir engineering, and offshore infrastructure from a career at India's largest oil and gas producer. Informs NCM's storage advisory programme and CO₂-EOR project development, and provides access to NOC datasets and engineering capability relevant to India's storage atlas programme.
India's leading academic authority on post-combustion capture chemistry for Indian industrial applications. Provides independent technical quality assurance for NCM's capture technology assessments — ensuring all NCM evaluations meet the rigour expected of peer-reviewed scientific analysis.
India's foremost expert on CO₂ geological storage characterisation in Indian sedimentary basins. Provides authoritative geological validation of NCM's storage pathway assessments across Gondwana, Deccan Traps, and offshore basin settings.
Brings deep expertise in fertiliser sector CCUS economics, green urea market development, and DFI co-financing for industrial decarbonisation. Provides the fertiliser sector perspective critical to NCM's chemicals and green urea advisory programme — India's most commercially immediate CCU opportunity.
Brings experience from India's large integrated steel operations including blast furnace and DRI production. Informs NCM's steel CCUS advisory and cluster development work, and provides the industrial client perspective needed to ensure NCM's project development process is practically implementable at plant level.
Senior representative from Australia's foremost CCUS research and demonstration organisation. Brings direct operational experience in CO₂ injection, monitoring, and verification from Australia's advanced CCUS demonstration programme — the primary international reference NCM applies to Indian storage programme design.
Senior representative from Norway's national CCS technology development organisation. Brings experience from the world's most rigorous CCS technology evaluation and test centre programme — informing NCM's technology assessment methodology and vendor evaluation framework with global best practice.
Executive leader from India's foremost climate policy research institution. Brings the civil society and independent policy research perspective that ensures NCM's advisory programme serves India's broader development objectives — not only industrial decarbonisation — and remains publicly accountable.
Privacy and Governance Policy: NCM does not publicly identify individual members of its Governing Council or Advisory Board. This policy protects the independence of Council members, prevents commercial pressure or lobbying directed at individual members, and ensures that Council decisions are attributed to NCM as an institution rather than to the personal views of any individual. Organisations wishing to engage with NCM's governance may do so through NCM's executive team.
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