Mr. Hussain attended the Advanced Management Programme at the Harvard Business School. He joined the Board of The Indian Tube Company (a Tata Steel associate company) in 1981, and thereafter, moved to Tata Steel in 1983. Mr. Hussain is the Finance Director of Tata Sons Ltd. and Director of several Tata Group companies. He is a member on the Primary Markets Advisory Committee of the Securities and Exchange Board of India.