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 worked in the marketing function before moving to general management.
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.