Arundhati Bhattacharya | |
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Chairperson and Managing Director, State Bank of India | |
In office 7 October 2013 – 6 October 2017 | |
Preceded by | Pratip Chaudhuri |
Succeeded by | Rajnish Kumar |
Personal details | |
Born | Kolkata, West Bengal, India | 18 March 1956
Spouse | Pritimoy Bhattacharya |
Residence(s) | Mumbai, India[1] |
Alma mater | |
Arundhati Bhattacharya (born on 18th March 1956) is the Chairperson and Chief Executive Officer for Salesforce, India. .She is also retired Indian banker and former Chairperson of the State Bank of India.[1] She is the first woman to be the Chairperson of State Bank of India. In 2016, she was listed as the 25th most powerful woman in the world by Forbes.[2] She is the only Indian corporate leader listed on Fortune's world's greatest leaders list ranked at 26.
In 2018, her interview titled "Arundhati Bhattacharya: The Making of SBI's First Woman Chairperson" was published on Harvard Business Review.[3]