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Dhruba Narayan Ghosh
12th Chairman of State Bank of India
Preceded byVishwanath N. Nadkarni
Succeeded byAtal V.
Personal details
NationalityIndian

Dhruba Narayan Ghosh was an Indian career bureaucrat and civil servant who served as the twelfth Chairman of State Bank of India.[1][2] He was also the founder and first chairman of the ICRA Limited.[3]

Life

Most of the details about his early life are known from his autobiography No Regrets published by Rupa Publications on 1 August 2015.[3] The book was released by Arundhati Bhattacharya, the then Chairman of State Bank of India and Deepak Parekh, chairman of the Housing Development Finance Corporation on 27 August 2015.[4]

Education

He holds a Master's degree in Economics from the University of Calcutta.[5]

Career

Early career

He joined the Indian Audit and Accounts Service and worked in a number of roles. He played a key role in the nationalization of Indian banks.[6]

A large chunk of his civil service years were spent in the banking division (later department) of the Union finance ministry as a key official who helped draft laws that led up to bank nationalisation and thereafter to a supervisory structure for public sector banks.

— Business Standard[6]

Banking career

He served as the twelfth Chairman of State Bank of India from 13 May 1985 until 12 May 1989.[1][2]

After his retirement from the State Bank of India in 1989, he was succeeded by Atal V. as the Chairman of State Bank of India.[1][2]

It was during his time at the State Bank of India, that the drive towards computerization of branches was begun. The State Bank of India was also rated by the international rating agency the S&P Global Ratings for the first time during his tenure.[6]

Later career

After having retired from the State Bank of India in 1989, he held a number of executive posts in the private sector which included:[7]

He has also served as the president of the Society for the Preservation of Satyajit Ray Archives.[3]

In 1991, he became the Managing Trustee of the Sameeksha Trust, which is the publisher of Economic and Political Weekly.[8]

References

  1. ^ a b c Hazari, Hemindra (3 February 2002). "A Question of Leadership" (PDF). hemindrahazari(.)com. Archived (PDF) from the original on 14 April 2021.
  2. ^ a b c ""State Bank of India- Story of the Largest Bank in India"". 27 May 2021.
  3. ^ a b c d "D.N. Ghosh | Authors | Rupa Publications".
  4. ^ "'No Regrets' launched". 27 August 2015.
  5. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k "DN Ghosh | The Billion Press". www.thebillionpress.org.
  6. ^ a b c Roy, Subir (12 November 2015). "From civil servant to corporate warrior" – via Business Standard.
  7. ^ "CHAIRMAN EMERITUS - Mr. D. N. Ghosh". ICRA India. Archived from the original on 25 February 2020.
  8. ^ "No regrets, only looking back". 13 September 2015.

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