Ramabadran Gopalakrishnan (born 25 December 1945) is an Indian businessman and author.
Ltd.[3][4] Before joining Tata he was Vice Chairman of Hindustan Lever, the Indian subsidiary of Unilever plc.
[2] Gopalakrishnan earned a bachelor's degree in physics from St Xavier's College, Calcutta University, a bachelor's degree in Electronics from IIT Kharagpur in 1967 and did a six-week Advanced Management Programme from Harvard Business School, United States.
He began his career in 1967 as a computer analyst with Hindustan Lever.
During his years with Unilever, he was based in Jeddah as CEO of the Arabia unit; later, he was managing director of Brooke Bond Lipton India and then vice-chairman with Hindustan Lever.