Based in Singapore, Manish Pant leads Schneider Electric's multi-billion-euro International Operations across the Global South, representing 18% of the world’s GDP. With over 25 years in operational and strategic roles at the company, he drives growth in fast growing emerging markets. 

Under Manish Pant’s leadership, Schneider Electric is accelerating its multihub strategy by elevating India as a fourth global hub, bringing together functions such as Sales, Marketing, R&D, Global Supply Chain, and Human Resources within the India Hub. He is driving the integration of the former Larsen & Toubro Electrical & Automation (E&A) business, now rebranded as Lauritz Knudsen, as a strong growth engine for the company. Manish is also accelerating the company’s momentum in the Middle East, with bold investments in the Gulf and Saudi Arabia to capture highpotential regional growth. 

Prior to his current role, he led the Home and Distribution division, overseeing design and development of home products for key markets including the US, China, and Europe.   As CEO of Luminous, Schneider Electric's India-focused power backup subsidiary, Manish led its post-JV transformation, launching electrical and solar businesses while elevating manufacturing to global standards.  

He holds an MBA from the Asian Institute of Management, a bachelor’s in electrical engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, and leadership training from Harvard Business School and INSEAD. 

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In India and the Middle East, energy transition is about access, resilience, and local independence, not just decarbonization. Schneider Electric enables prosumers, microgrids, and rooftop solar to bypass grid constraints and deliver reliable, cleaner power to households, industries, and critical assets like desalination plants. Its Access to Energy programs and microgrids in Africa and South America show how distributed systems can unlock development while cutting emissions. 

Manish Pant leads the company’s mission to be “Your Energy Tech Partner” across India, Middle East and Africa, Pacific, and South America, giving him direct oversight of how distributed energy, microgrids, and access-to-energy programmes are deployed on the ground in high‑growth and emerging markets. His track record within the group and its subsidiaries (for example, Luminous in India), as well as in integrating large electrical businesses, positions him to speak credibly about scaling local, resilient energy systems in the Global South. 

AI and digitalization offer emerging markets a chance to leapfrog legacy systems, if infrastructure and skills are built locally. In India, Schneider Electric supports efficient, low-carbon data centers and open, software-centric automation that upgrades workers’ skills instead of replacing them. One of the company’s key strengths is integrating digital and industrial systems, leading the development and deployment of software-driven architectures in energy management and automation. 

Across the Middle East and Africa, digital grids, IoT, and cybersecurity are improving reliability, speeding fault recovery, and creating new green and digital jobs, especially for young people and women.  

Having previously led the Home & Distribution division, he brings deep experience in product and design development for diverse, high-demand markets, including connected homes, power management, and residential solar offers. In his current role, he is responsible for operationalizing digital and automation-led growth across the Global South, enabling AI and data-driven solutions to be embedded into real industrial environments, service models, and workforce development initiatives in fast-growing economies.  

With fragmentation of global markets, India, the Middle East, Africa, and South America are repositioning as resilient, self-reliant production and innovation hubs. Schneider Electric’s multi-hub, decentralized model backs this shift through local manufacturing, regional supply chains, and partnerships with local companies, NGOs, and governments. Global South markets are no longer passive recipients of “imported solutions” but are building their own energy, digital, and industrial ecosystems, leveraging global partners in a complementary role. 

Manish is the architect and driver of Schneider Electric’s multi-hub for the Global South, including bold investments in the India, Gulf and Saudi Arabia. With a multi-billion-euro portfolio representing a significant growth and share of group revenues, he is uniquely positioned to discuss how geopolitics, supply chain resilience, and regional hub strategies are reshaping business models and growth pathways across the Global South.