Mr. R. Shankar Raman is a qualified Chartered Accountant and a Cost Accountant. Over the past 40 years, Mr. Shankar Raman has worked in varied capacities in the field of finance.

Mr. R. Shankar Raman joined L&T Group in November 1994 to set up L&T Finance Limited, a wholly owned subsidiary of Larsen & Toubro Limited.

Over the years, Mr. Shankar Raman has assumed responsibilities to oversee the entire finance function at the Group level, including functions like Risk Management, Investor Relations, Mergers & Acquisitions and Legal. He was appointed as Chief Financial Officer of Larsen & Toubro Limited in September 2011 and subsequently elevated to the Board on October 1, 2011. He is also on the Board of Management of several companies within the L&T Group.

Mr. Shankar Raman has been the recipient of several awards, such as Best CFO of Asia in the Industrial Sector in a survey conducted by the prestigious New York-based Institutional Investor magazine, winner of Best CFO awards from CNBC TV18, Financial Express, and Business Today. He is also the recipient of the Lifetime Achievement award in the field of Finance from Financial Express.

Mr. Shankar Raman is presently a member of the Advisory Committee to the Insolvency and Bankruptcy Board of India (IBBI) on Corporate Insolvency & Liquidation and a member of the SEBI-Corporate Bonds and Securitization Advisory Committee (CoBoSAC). He is also a member of CII National Committee on Financial Reporting & CII National Committee for CFOs.