Alan Rosling is an executive director of Tata Sons. He is a member of the Tata Group Corporate Centre and is responsible for the Group's drive to internationalise. He is also a director of Tata AutoComp Systems and Tata International.

From 1998 to 2003, he was chairman of the Jardine Matheson Group in India. Before joining Jardine Matheson in Hong Kong, Mr Rosling was with United Distillers plc where he was strategy development director. He was also managing director of Concorde Motors, a joint venture between Jardine Motors and the Tata Group, prior to the sale of the Jardine stake to the Tatas in 2002. Between 1991-93, Mr Rosling was special advisor to the British Prime Minister, John Major, and a member of the policy unit at No 10 Downing Street. Prior to that, he was chief executive of Piersons, a division of Courtaulds Textiles plc. Mr Rosling started his career in 1983 as an investment banker with S G Warburg & Co Ltd.

Mr Rosling is currently the chairman of the British Business Group, Mumbai, and the chairman of the City of London Advisory Board for India. He also chairs The Bombay Chamber of Commerce's Indo-British Business Committee.

Mr Rosling was educated at Downing College, Cambridge, where he took a first in History. He was awarded a Harkness Fellowship in 1986 to go to the Harvard Business School, from which he graduated as a Baker Scholar.

He was made an OBE in 1994.