Gaurav has more than 14 years of industry experience and leads the S&P Global Commodity Insights's OMD consulting team in Gurgaon, India. He advises public and private downstream clients across Middle East and South Asia regions and manages varied consulting assignments spanning strategy, market studies, due diligence, market assessment and sizing, feasibility studies, investment evaluation, opportunity identification and screening.

Prior to joining S&P Global, Gaurav was employed by IndianOil Corporation Limited for nearly 7 years in a number of strategic, commercial and technical positions, and Kline & Company for a year where he worked on varied consulting assignments spread across industries.

He did his MBA from the Indian Institute of Management (IIM), Lucknow and B Tech in Chemical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Kanpur. He is recipient of Chairman's gold medal at IIM Lucknow.