Ankush Arora to become president of Nissan's India operations

Joins growing list of auto MNCs with Indian at the helm

More global automobile majors seem to feel the need to have an Indian or a person of Indian origin in leadership roles.

Japanese automobile major Nissan is hiring Ankush Arora, who has worked with Tata Motors and General Motors (GM), as its India president.

Arora will be joining Nissan from Egypt’s Mansour Group, where he spent almost three years as chief operating officer. The latter has interests in automotives, capital markets and consumer goods. Prior to Mansour, he spent more than a year as senior vice-president (passenger vehicle business unit) at Tata Motors. Before joining Tata, he’d worked with GM