Hindustan Unilever Limited (HUL) has appointed Ranjay Gulati as an Independent Director on its Board, effective 1st April 2023. Gulati comes with a rich understanding of Business Strategy and is presently, a Professor at Harvard Business School. He is an expert on organisational growth and until recently, chaired the Advanced Management Program, the School's Senior Leader Executive Program.

Gulati is the former President of the Business Policy and Strategy Division at the Academy of Management and an elected fellow of the Strategic Management Society. He has been a Harvard MacArthur Fellow and a Sloan Foundation Fellow. He holds a Master's Degree in Management from the MIT Sloan School of Management and a PhD in Organisational Behaviour from Harvard University.

He graduated in Economics from St. Stephen's College, Delhi University.