Mr Alan Rosling, executive director, Tata Sons, joined the board of Tata International on July 27, 2004. He is a member of the Tata Group Corporate Centre.

He brings to the board his vast experience and expertise in international business. 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. Between 1991-93 Mr Rosling was special advisor to the British Prime Minister, John Major MP, and a member of the Policy Unit at No10 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.

He is currently the chairman of the British Business Group, Mumbai.

Mr Rosling was educated at Downing College, Cambridge, where he took a Double 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. He has served as a non-executive director on the board of Tata Industries Limited during the period 1998-2003 as the nominee of Jardine Matheson, a shareholder of Tata Industries Limited. He is also a director of Tata Autocomp Limited.