Bio

Smt. Arundhati Bhattacharya is the Chairman of State Bank of India (SBI) and is also Head of the entire State Bank Group. Earlier she was MD & CFO of SBI. Prior to this, she was MD & CEO of SBI Capital Markets Ltd. from 21st August, 2012 to 2nd August, 2013. Before her assignment in SBICAP, she was Deputy Managing Director and Corporate Development Officer of SBI. She joined the Bank in the year 1977 and since then has held various assignments spanning Credit, Forex, Treasury and Retail Operations. She has also had a stint in the Bank’s New York office where she was in charge of monitoring branch performance, overseeing External Audit and Correspondent Relations. In her extensive service in the Bank she has had the opportunity of working in Metro, Urban and Rural areas, crisscrossing the length and breadth of the country. She has handled large Corporate Credit as well as initiatives like Financial Inclusion and financing of Self Help Groups. She was involved in setting up several new companies / initiatives of the Bank including SBI General Insurance, SBI Macquarie Infrastructure Fund, SBI SG Global Securities Services, etc., as well as the launch of new IT platforms such as Mobile Banking and Financial Planning in the Bank.