Shell India on Aug 28 announced the appointment of Mansi Madan Tripathy as the new country chair of the company, effective 1 October, the company said in a statement.

Tripathy will succeed Nitin Prasad who has been the country chair since 2016, it added.

"As Country Chair of Shell India, Mansi will oversee Shell Group of companies in India, in addition to her role as Vice President, Shell Lubricants for Asia Pacific. Mansi will relocate from Singapore to New Delhi, her home city, to take up the role,"it said.

A graduate from the National Institute of Technology Kurukshetra, Tripaty has an MBA in Marketing from SP Jain Institute of Management and Research.

Prior to this, she was vice president of Shell Lubricants Asia Pacific and has held other roles in the company, including managing director of Shell Lubricants India and country marketing officer.

She joined the company from Procter & Gamble in 2012, where she held several regional and global director-level positions.