About

Nominated by peers, Tejal Patil is general counsel at GE South Asia and continues to go from strength to strength at the helm of a large multinational conglomerate with a multi-jurisdictional responsibility. Patil leads a team of over 50 legal and compliance professionals in the South Asia region bringing with her almost 20 years of experience at GE and legal qualifications in India and the UK. She is also the co-leader of the GE Women’s Network for Asia Pacific. Recent project highlights include, among many, the opening of a new state of the art national electric grid control system in Sri Lanka at its high tech operations centre in Colombo in partnership with the Ceylon Electricity Board, the announcement of a new commission to deliver the first part of a mega grid stabilisation project with the world’s largest wide area monitoring system (WAMS) to rejuvenate India’s northern grid in connection with the Power Grid Corporation of India.