Maikanti Kachalla Baru (7 July 1959 – 29 May 2020) was a Nigerian engineer, crude oil marketer and the 18th Group Managing Director of the Nigeria's state oil firm, Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC).
[3] He attended Federal Government College, Jos for his secondary education where he graduated in 1978.
[1][5] Baru worked with the Jos Steel Rolling Company for three years from 1988 before he left to join the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation in 1991 as an Engineering Manager.
[7] From 1999 to 2004, he served as the Chief Technical Negotiator on the West African Gas Pipeline project.
[10] On reaching the statutory age of 60, he retired on 7 July 2019 and was succeeded by Mele Kyari.