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Koushik Chatterjee

Executive Director and Chief Financial Officer, Tata Steel

Search every verified Koushik Chatterjee interview, podcast appearance, and on-the-record quote — each transcript cross-checked by AI and human review to confirm speaker identity. Koushik Chatterjee, Executive Director and Chief Financial Officer at Tata Steel, participated in the company’s earnings calls for the first quarter of fiscal year 2026-27, held on July 30 and 31, 2026. During these calls, he addressed operational challenges, including issues with the coke and gas plant and the strip mill, and discussed ongoing emission-related legal cases, stating that the company has a defense and data to support its position. He also commented on the UK’s nationalization of certain steel assets, noting that the affected assets were previously sold by Tata Steel and that the company does not intend to participate in such opportunities, focusing instead on its electric arc furnace project at Port Talbot. Chatterjee also discussed capital allocation priorities, emphasizing that India would dominate investment decisions, whether in upstream volume expansion or downstream value expansion. He stated that investments in process technology changes would require alignment of government support, policy, market conditions, and community acceptance, and that the company would not proceed without clarity on these factors and a viable business case. He noted price spikes in energy, freight, insurance, natural gas, and logistics costs, with expectations that the impact would taper in coming quarters. Additionally, he highlighted difficulties operating as the only steel company in the Netherlands, where local regulatory standards sometimes exceed EU norms or industry benchmarks.

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“The moment carbon gets priced and costed it's an economic economic cost so if today for example the European Union emission trading scheme the CO2 is about say 70 so what was free earlier in India it's still free the moment it becomes 70 the decision making changes the investment pattern changes whether to invest or not becomes important.”

“The societal purpose of being is not addressed by a corporation it will not have a sustainable lifespan and therefore the next so the defining the corporation's purpose is critical in the context of regulation in the context of society the stakeholders we don't the world is moving out from the Wall Street shareholder as the only stakeholder to a larger ecosystem of shareholders so a manager of Tomorrow cannot just th”

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