Rohit Jawa

About Rohit Jawa

Rohit Jawa is the CEO & Managing Director and whole-time Director of Hindustan Unilever Limited. He is also the President of Unilever, South Asia, and a member of the Unilever Leadership Executive (ULE). Rohit started his career with HUL as a Management Trainee in 1988. He has been in several leadership roles across sales, general management, transformation and marketing in South Asia, Southeast Asia, and North Asia. As EVP of North Asia and Chairman of Unilever China, Rohit helped transform the business into Unilever’s third largest business globally. He developed a distinct strategic agenda for China, championed digitalisation and premiumisation and steered the business capably through the COVID-19 crisis. As the Chairman of Unilever Philippines, he led the company to become one of the top 10 markets for Unilever globally. Rohit is deeply passionate about integrating the strength of traditional markets with digital technologies and future-fit business models. Rohit has a bachelor’s degree from St Stephen’s College and an MBA from the Faculty of Management Studies, both at the University of Delhi, India. He is an alumnus of IMD Business School, Lausanne, Switzerland, where he completed the Breakthrough Program for Senior Executives in 2018. Rohit also completed the Advanced Management Program from Harvard Business School in 2022. He has served as the founding Secretary for the Food Industry Asia, Singapore in 2010 and Co-chaired the ‘Grow Asia Philippines’ along with the Secretary of Agriculture, Philippines in 2015-16, a World Economic Forum initiative for inclusive business models in agriculture. In addition, he served on the Consumer Goods Forum (CGF) China board, a global CEO-led collaboration for positive change. Since mid 2023 he is an Executive Committee Member of Vikaasa, a coalition that collaborates to accelerate India\'s progress on the UN Sustainable Development Goals. He is also a Trustee of Breach Candy Hospital and represents HUL in Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry (FICCI) as National Executive Committee, Confederation of Indian Industry National Council 2024-25, All India Management Association as Distinguished Invitee and Aon DEI Collective Advisory Board.

Experience

1. CEO & Md, Hindustan Unilever Limited President South Asia and Member, Unilever Leadership Executive

   Unilever

   Apr 2023 — Present · Mumbai, IN

Education

• Faculty of Management Studies - University of Delhi

  MBA

  1986 — 1988

• Harvard Business School

  Advanced Management Program

  2022 — 2022

• St. Stephen's College

  Bachelor of Science

  1983 — 1986

• IMD

  Breakthrough Program for Senior Executives

  2018 — 2018