Metals and mining is returning to the centre of India's industrial agenda, with new capacity, sharper ESG expectations, and a generational shift in leadership underway.
The Indian metals industry spans integrated steel-makers, aluminium and copper producers, specialty alloys, and the upstream mining base that supplies them. After a long under-investment cycle, capacity expansion and downstream value-addition are back on the boardroom agenda.
The talent picture is shifting in parallel. ESG and EHS leadership is no longer optional; it is the licence to operate. Younger leaders who can blend the production-floor credibility of the previous generation with the regulatory and stakeholder fluency of the next are in genuine demand.
Our mandates here tend to be senior, technical and high-stakes — the kind where the wrong appointment is felt for years.
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