BP Biddappa

Executive Director and Chief People, Transformation and Sustainability Officer

Mr BP Biddappa is the Executive Director and Chief People, Transformation and Sustainability Officer for Hindustan Unilever Limited (HUL).

Prior to this, he was the Chief HR Officer for Unilever's Global Home Care business and the Global Head of Employee Relations. During his five-year tenure in Global Home Care and as part of a wider portfolio, he led two critical expertise functions for Unilever globally: Organisational Development & People Analytics and Employee Relations. During this period, he was also instrumental in helping build Unilever's Health & Wellbeing business.

He previously led the HR function for HUL and Unilever South Asia as the Executive Director of HR from 2013 to 2019. During that time, he established the Winning in Many Indias approach, creating a more agile and focused business unit framework in South Asia. On the Sustainability front, Prabhat, HUL's community development initiative that touches millions of lives across India, was launched under his leadership.

Mr Biddappa started his over three-decade career in Unilever with a factory stint in HUL and then moved on to undertake a variety of roles, from leadership development to business partnering, across several Unilever businesses. He has led HR for Unilever in Maghreb, Bangladesh, India and for Unilever's Supply Chain and Finance teams in Asia, Africa, and Russia while he was based in Singapore.

He joined Unilever in 1992 after a stint as a Consultant at AF Ferguson & Co, New Delhi.

He graduated with an Economics degree from Delhi University and has a post-graduation diploma in Personnel Management & Industrial Relations from XLRI Jamshedpur.