NEW DELHI: Reliance Industries Ltd’s Human Resources head Ira Bindra has been named among the world’s top CHROs, making Reliance the only Indian company to feature on the prestigious list.
Global executive search and leadership advisory firm N2Growth announced the 2025 Leaders40 Top Chief Human Resources Officers (CHRO) Award on Friday. The list recognises HR leaders from some of the world’s most influential companies, including Lisa Buckingham (Vialto Partners), Matthew Breitfelder (Apollo Global Management), Robin Leopold (JPMorgan Chase), Christy Pambianchi (Caterpillar Inc.), Trisha Conley (LyondellBasell), Maral Kazanjian (Moody’s) and Donna Morris (Walmart).
Bindra is the only Indian executive on the list and the first Indian woman leader from an Indian company to be featured. She has been ranked 28th.
According to her citation, Bindra is “a global HR and business transformation leader with over two decades of experience driving growth, innovation and organisational excellence across Fortune 100 companies and high-growth enterprises.” Her career spans multiple sectors and geographies, where she has led integrated business, people and culture strategies to enable high performance and sustainable transformation.
As President – People & Talent at Reliance Industries Limited, India’s largest private enterprise and a Fortune Global 500 company, she works closely with the Chairman, Executive Committee and senior leadership to shape the organisation’s talent and culture agenda. She is currently leading enterprise-wide transformation efforts for Reliance’s 360,000-strong workforce across energy, retail, telecom, media and green technologies.
Before joining Reliance, Bindra held senior global HR roles at Medtronic, the world’s largest medical device company, and spent 19 years with General Electric across multiple businesses and regions. She holds an MBA from the Maastricht School of Management, Netherlands, and a BA (Hons) in History from Lady Shri Ram College, Delhi University.
The Top CHRO list was first launched on Forbes in 2015 by N2Growth Founder Mike Myatt and has since become one of the most respected rankings in the HR profession. In 2020, N2Growth partnered with Stanford Graduate School of Business to formalise it as the Leaders40 Award.
“Over the last decade, we’ve watched the CHRO role transform,” said Tony Morales, Co-Chairman of N2Growth and head of the Leaders40 Selection Committee. “Today’s CHROs are strategic partners to CEOs and boards, driving performance, culture and transformation at the highest level.”
The Leaders40 Selection Committee reviews thousands of nominations, conducts extensive interviews and eventually selects the top 40 CHROs who set global benchmarks in human capital leadership.
