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Wednesday, October 9, 2013

Arundhati Bhattacharya Appointed SBI's First Woman Chairperson Monday Oct 7,2013



Arundhati Bhattacharya (57)CFO and the youngest of the bank’s four MDs, took charge as the first-ever woman chairperson of SBI succeeding Pratip Chaudhuri who retired on Sep 30,2013


Arundhati Bhattacharya joined SBI as a direct recruit probationary officer way back in 1977. During her 36-year career, she has had stints in areas such as retail, treasury and corporate finance, and performed in a range of roles like deputy MD, corporate development officer, CGM, head of external audit and correspondent relations, CFO and MD 

Arundhati Bhattacharya also headed SBI’s merchant banking arm SBI Caps.

Unlike other public sector banks (PSBs) that have a combined post of CMD, SBI has a chairman/chairperson and four MDs

Arundhati Bhattacharya joins a select club of woman bankers at the helm of leading banks in India

  • Allahabad Bank is chaired by Shubhalakshmi Panse
  • Bank of India by Vijayalakshmi R Iyer and 
  • United Bank of India by Archana Bhargava

Among Private Sector Banks -
  • ICICI Bank is led by Chanda Kochhar and 
  • Axis Bank by Shikha Sharma

Among Foreign Banks in India -
HSBC India is chaired by Naina Lal Kidwai
JP Morgan India by Kalpana Morparia and
RBS India by Meera Sanyal.

At the Reserve Bank of India (RBI)
  • Shyamala Gopinath
  •  K.J. Udeshi and 
  • Usha Thorat 
have all been deputy governors










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