Banmali Agrawala is currently Senior Advisor at Tata Sons Pvt. Ltd. He joined Tata Sons Private Limited as President, Infrastructure, Defence & Aerospace in October 2017. Subsequently, he also headed Global Corporate Affairs at Tata Sons including its international offices in ASEAN, MENA, North America, China and the Public Affairs Office, Delhi.

In his earlier role, at GE, he was President and CEO - South Asia, where he was responsible for the American multinational corporation's operations in the South Asia region. Prior to GE, he was Executive Director (Business Development & Strategy) and a member of the Board of Tata Power. A veteran in the Energy domain, Banmali has over 30 years of global experience. He started his career with the Wartsila Group. At the time of leaving the Wartsila Group, he was the MD of Wartsila India Ltd. In the Tata Group, Banmali is the Chairman of companies like Tata Electronics Pvt. Ltd., Tata Advanced Systems Pvt. Ltd., Tata Housing Development Company, Tata Realty and Infrastructure Limited, and is on the Board of Tata Medical and Diagnostics Limited.

Banmali is a Mechanical Engineering graduate from Mangalore University and an alumnus of the Advanced Management Programme of Harvard Business School.