Om Prakash Bhatt | |
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22nd Chairman of State Bank of India | |
Preceded by | Arun Kumar Purwar |
Succeeded by | Pratip Chaudhuri |
Personal details | |
Born | Dehradun, Uttarakhand, India | 7 March 1951
Om Prakash Bhatt (born 7 March 1951) is an Indian banker and was the Chairman of State Bank of India from June 2006 until 31 March 2011[1][2] Presently, he is an independent director on the board of the 'Maharatna' Central Public Sector Enterprise - Oil and Natural Gas Corporation Ltd (ONGC), Tata Steel Ltd and also Hindustan Unilever Ltd. (HUL). On 25 November 2016 he was made interim chairman of TATA Steel, replacing Cyrus Mistry. He continues as an independent director after N. Chandrasekaran took over as Chairman in 2017.[3][4] The Supreme Court appointed him member of a committee to investigate issues arising out of US short-seller Hindenburg's report on the Adani Group on 2 March 2023.