Prabir Jha, an alumnus of St. Stephen's College, Delhi, and XLRI Jamshedpur is the Founder & CEO of Prabir Jha People Advisory, a boutique platform for retained strategic advisory, talent search and executive coaching.

Combining an impeccable academic and professional record, in his stint as a civil servant, he handled the entire gamut of HR & IR issues of the Indian Ordnance Factories. On his switch to the corporate world, after almost a decade in the government, his initial HR years were with Thermax & Tech Mahindra. Thereafter, Prabir served on the executive team as the Global CHRO at two NYSE-listed Indian majors, Dr. Reddy’s and Tata Motors before moving to lead HR at another Fortune 500 giant as the Group CHRO of Reliance Industries Ltd., making him the only Indian to have headed the HR function of two Fortune 500 companies. Prior to starting his own advisory firm, he was the President & Global Chief People Officer at the pharma major, Cipla.

Prabir, a distinguished HR strategist, advises firms, including startups, in India and abroad, with a special interest in Organisation Transformation, Talent Management, Executive Coaching, OD interventions, Global HR Strategy, Employer Branding, and Leadership Capability Development. Prabir has over the last many years been featured in the ‘List of Most Admired HR Professionals in India’ and has several awards to his credit. He is the recipient of the National Institute of Personnel Management (NIPM) Medal, the Reckitt & Colman Award, and the Citibank Leaders Award at XLRI, for the “highest level of academic performance, competence, originality, creativity, communication skills and leadership” as also the Director’s Medal in the Civil Services Foundation Course. He was conferred the Asia HRD Award - 2012 for “outstanding contribution to the field of Human Resource Development" and ‘The Distinguished Alumni’ Award at XLRI in 2016. He was named the ‘Digitalist of the Year' by SAP-Mint in 2018. He was ranked No. 1 amongst the 'Top HR Influencers on Twitter from India” by @BloggersAlliance and included in the ET HRWorld Influencers 2022 and LinkedIn Top Voices 2022 lists. He has been part of a New York based think tank of fifteen global CHROs, 'The Thinking Ahead Group'

In addition, Prabir is widely recognized as a transformation guru and an accomplished thought- leader whose views are closely followed across various media platforms. He has been among the most widely followed CHROs globally with more than half a million followers on LinkedIn. He is a sought-after speaker, executive coach, and a visiting faculty at various business schools and top management training institutes. He is on the Board of Trustees for Alcoholics Anonymous in India. He also sat on the HR Advisory Board of the Reserve Bank of India for five years and has been on the Board of companies in the Tata/ Cipla Group.