Krishna Hazarika Rao

Deputy General Manager- PR

Oil India Ltd

Krishna Hazarika Rao was an International Badminton Player having represented India from 1991 to 1996 and was also the National Badminton Champion, India and had won gold in the SAARC International Badminton Championships while representing her country. She joined Oil India Limited in the age of 16 years as a Badminton player under its scheme for promoting sports in the country in 1991. After doing her MBA from Faculty of Management Studies, Delhi University, she joined the CSR cell of Corporate office, New Delhi .

Presently she has an experience of working in the field of CSR for nearly 20 years. She is now posted in Guwahati in the North Eastern region of India and looks after both CSR & PR activities of the Pipeline Sphere of Oil India Limited. She is passionate about CSR, sports and reading and is presently promoting grassroot volleyball in the state of Assam by a novel method of community engagement. She is also the Mentor of the Badminton Gurukul, an initiative by Padmabhushan Pullela Gopichand and had recently featured in the international journal Drilling & Exploration World journal in its January edition as one of 9 inspirational women in the petroleum industry of India.