Prajakta Kulkarni began her career as a petroleum engineer, working in India and throughout the Middle East. She is now the OFSE Commercial Digital Operations Leader (Regions: NAM-L and Offshore, LATAM, APAC, MENATI, KSA, SSA and ENSC) for Baker Hughes.

Kulkarni holds a Bachelor of Engineering – Petroleum Engineering – Gold Medalist (University 1st Rank Holder) from the Maharashtra Institute of Technology in Pune, India, and graduated from the Global Energy Leadership Program at Rice University in Houston, Texas.

Kulkarni was an ALLY Energy 2023 GRIT Awards finalist for a professional making a change in the energy industry.