Arundhati Bhattacharya

A passionate banker who takes complete ownership and pride in whatever she does and with a career of over thirty-seven years with the State Bank of India (SBI), Arundhati Bhattacharya has many amazing firsts to her name. She is the first woman chairman of the 209-year-old SBI, a Fortune 500 company. She is the only Indian banker featuring in the list of 100 most important active public intellectuals, ‘The Leading Global Thinkers of 2014’. She is the only banker to be simultaneously recognized as the Most Powerful Woman in India by Business Today, Forbes Asia and Bloomberg, apart from being crowned as an outstanding leader by CNBCTV18. She is the only Indian banker to be on the board of fourteen SBI associates and subsidiaries (including the SBI), six financial institutions and on eleven committees formed by the Government of India to promote country-to-country business initiatives among others. Arundhati is the only public-sector banker to have been awarded EY Entrepreneurial CEO of the Year._x000D_