Smt. Arundhati Bhattacharya

Biography

 Mrs. Arundhati Bhattacharya has assumed office as Chairman of State Bank of India on October 7, 2013. Prior to this she was Managing Director & CFO of State Bank of India. She joined the Bank in the year 1977 and since then has held various assignments spanning Credit, Forex, Treasury, Retail Operations, HR and Investment Banking. 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. She was Managing Director & CEO of SBI Capital Markets Limited, the merchant banking arm of State Bank of India. 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 Securities Ltd, etc., as well as the launch of new IT platforms such as Mobile Banking and Financial Planning in the Bank. 

Research Interest

 Banking  Economical stratergy