Swati Agarwal

Executive Vice President, IGTC
Colgate-Palmolive (India) Limited

Ms. Swati Agarwal is the Vice President of Global Technology Center at Colgate-Palmolive India Limited (CPIL). She has been leading the India Research & Development Function since August’22, providing strategic leadership and technology support for Oral, Personal & Home Care category for India and multiple global markets. She brings in close to two decades of FMCG experience in conceptualizing, formulating and delivering high impact, market-leading consumer centric products across categories while working for Unilever, Reckitt Benckiser and Johnson & Johnson.

Swati has extensive R&D experience that spans across upstream & downstream product innovations, design, development and deployment across different regulated categories. Before Colgate, Swati served at Johnson & Johnson Consumer Health in Singapore as APAC R&D Head – leading Oral Care, Feminine Hygiene and Wound Care. She is a subject-matter-expert in the Absorbent Hygiene product category.

Swati holds Chemical Engineering degree from Harcourt Butler Technological Institute (H.B.T.I) Kanpur, India and also has multiple patents to her credit.

Swati’s life mantra is to strike balance into anything that one does. She is a strong advocate of sustainable development and strives to restore the crucial balance with nature.