Ashwani Lohani
Indian civil servant (born 1958)
Ashwani Lohani (born 22 December 1958) is a retired 1980 batch officer of Indian Railway Service of Mechanical Engineers. He has been Director of Prime Ministers' Museum and Library Society since June 2025. He has earlier worked as the Chairman & Managing Director of Air India and the former Chairman of the Railway Board of Indian Railways. After retiring from Government service, he joined GMR Group where he was Chief Executive Officer from August 2020 till February 2025.
Early life and education
Lohani was born in Kanpur, Uttar Pradesh. He completed his schooling at St. Aloysius High School, Kanpur and studied engineering at Indian Railways Institute of Mechanical and Electrical Engineering (IRIMEE), Jamalpur. He is a mechanical engineer; as part of his training at IRIMEE, he attended training in mechanical, electrical and telecommunications at Jamalpur Workshop. He holds four engineering degree in mechanical engineering, electrical engineering, metallurgical engineering and electronics & telecommunication engineering from Institution of Engineers, Kolkata. He is also a Fellow of the Institution of Engineers, India and the Chartered Institute of Logistics and Transport.
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