Ramsekhar is a development practitioner with 33+ years of hands-on experience of leading large and complex organizations in the government, public sector, private sector and consulting.
He is a former civil servant belonging to the Indian Administrative Service (IAS: Haryana: 1988) with deep and abiding engagement with the entire life cycle activities across the physical and social infrastructural continuum.
He last worked as the MD and CEO of Delhi Integrated Multi-modal Transit System (DIMTS), a multi-disciplinary urban and transportation services and solutions provider spanning a range of activities across planning, engineering, informatics, operations, public – private partnerships, organisational reforms and reengineering. DIMTS, a joint venture between Delhi Government and IDFC, is involved with transforming the urban and transportation services working closely with several multilateral development agencies, Union Government of India, State and Municipal Governments across 24 states and union territories in India and several private sector infra players.
Before joining DIMTS, Ramsekhar was CEO of IPE Global, a multi-sector development consultancy operating in India and two dozen countries. He was earlier CEO of CRISIL Risk and Infrastructure Solutions, a risk and policy advisory solutions provider for governments, regulators and private sector in infrastructure and financial services across Asia and Africa. Previously, he worked as Chief Strategy Officer of GVK Power and Infrastructure, an Indian infrastructure major with interests in airports, roads, power, mining and SEZs. While in government, Ramsekhar had long stints in Urban Development, Transport, Civil Aviation, Industries, Commercial Taxes intimately involved with policy design and implementation.
A graduate in Mechanical Engineering, Ramsekhar pursued post-graduate studies in Infrastructure Planning and Development at Columbia University in the City of New York, and in Public and Economic Policy at the London School of Economics and Political Science.