CAREER
May 2009 Group General Manager and Country Head, HSBC India
May 2006 Group General Manager and Chief Executive Officer, HSBC India
November 2002 Deputy Chief Executive Officer HSBC, India
Vice Chairperson & Managing Director HSBC Securities & Capital Markets India Pvt Ltd
1994 - 2002 Vice Chairperson and Head Investment Banking, Morgan Stanley India / JM Morgan Stanley
1982 - 1994 Anz Grindlays Bank Plc. (now Standard Chartered Bank)
1994 - 1991 Chief Manager Retail Bank
1989 - 1991 Chief Manager and Head Investment Bank, India
1987 - 1989 Manager North India of the Investment Bank based in Delhi
1984 - 1987 Manager West India of the Investment Bank based in Bombay
1977 - 1980 Price Waterhouse & Co.
EDUCATION
1980 - 1982 Harvard Graduate School of Business Administration, Boston, Massachusetts (USA) Degree of Master in Business Administration
1977 - 1980 Institute of Chartered Accountants, Delhi (India) Studied Chartered Accountancy
1974 - 1977 Delhi University Lady Shri Ram College, Delhi (India) Bachelor of Arts degree in Economics (Honors)
1968 - 1973 Loreto Convent, Simla (India) Indian School Certificate Examination (specialisation in Science and Mathematics)
BOARD MEMBERSHIPS
Board member, National Science and Technology Entrepreneurship Development Board (IN), National Integration Council (IN), Indo German Consultative Group (IN).
Chamber of Industry and Commerce (IN),
National Council of the Confederation of Indian Industries, National Executive Committee, FICCI (IN).
Member, Indian Advisory Council of the City of London.
Global Board of Dean's Advisors of the Harvard Business School, the India Board of John Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies (USA).
Advisory Boards IIM Ahmedabad and IIT Mumbai.
Board member of the Grassroots Trading Network for Women
HONORS
2007 awarded Padma Shri by the Indian Government
PERSONAL BACKGROUND
Interests include Western and Indian classical music, books, wildlife.