Ms. Chanda Kochhar is the Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer of ICICI Bank Limited.  She has headed all the major divisions of the Bank at various points in time.

In 1993 when ICICI decided to enter commercial banking, she was made part of the core team to set up the bank. When ICICI set up the Infrastructure Industry Group in 1996 to create dedicated industry expertise in the areas of Power, Telecom and Transportation sector, she was put in charge of the Infrastructure Industry Group.

In July 2000, she was chosen to head the Retail Finance division and in April 2001, she was promoted as an Executive Director, heading the retail business in the Bank. In April 2006, she was appointed as the Deputy Managing Director with responsibility for both Corporate and Retail banking business of ICICI Bank and from October 2006 to October 2007 she handled the International and Corporate businesses of ICICI. In October 2007, she was appointed as the Joint Managing Director & CFO. She was heading the Corporate Centre, was the Chief Financial Officer (CFO) and was also the official spokesperson for ICICI Bank.

Year after year, Ms.Kochbar is awarded top honors in the business world for her talented management and her work on behalf of the public good.

2011

Conferred the “Padma Bhushan”, one of India’s highest civilian honours.
First woman to be named as the “Business Leader of the Year “, by Economic Times.
Ranked 5th in the International list of “50 Most Powerful Women In Business”, by Fortune. She was ranked 10th in 2010.
Named among the “50 Most Influential People”, in global finance, by Bloomberg Markets magazine.
Featured in the “Hall Of Fame – Most Powerful Women in Indian Business”, by Business Today.
Ranked as the 43rd “Most Powerful Woman”, in the world, by Forbes magazine.
Received the “Global Leadership Award”, from the US-India Business Council.
Named among the “Two Best Indian CEOs “, in an annual poll, by Finance Asia.
Conferred with the “Transformational Business Leader of the Year Award “, by All India Management Association (AIMA).
Ranked 17th among the “25 Most Powerful CEOs”, in Asia, by Fortune.
Named amongst the “25 Most Powerful Professional Women”, in the country, by India Today.

2010

Ranked 11th by Financial Times in the “Top 50 Women in World Business”
Conferred with the “Outstanding Woman Business Leader of the Year” award by CNBC TV18, 2010
Conferred with the “Banker of the Year Award” by Financial Express
Ranked 92nd in the Forbes list of “Most Powerful Women” in the world
Ranked 10th in the Fortune’s List of “Most Powerful Women in Business”
Conferred with the “Transformational Business Leader of the Year”, by All India Management Association (AIMA)
Featured in the list of “30 Most Powerful Women Leaders”, in Business Today for 8 consecutive years from 2002 to 2010

2009

Awarded with the Indian Business Women Leadership Award at NDTV Profit Business Leadership Awards
Ranked in the top 20 of the World’s 100 Most Powerful Women list compiled by Forbes

2008

Ranked 25th in Fortune International Power 50 list

2007

Won the Teachers Achievement Award in the business category
Ranked 33rd in the Fortune’s List of 50 Most Powerful Women in Global Business
Featured in the list of Business Today’s 25 most powerful women leaders

2006

Featured on Fortune’s 50 Most Powerful Women in International Business
Selected as “Rising Star Award”, for Global Awards by Retail Banker International

2005

Awarded “Business Woman of the Year”, by The Economic Times of India

2004

Selected as “Retail Banker of the Year”, (Asia-Pacific region) by The Asian Banker from amongst prominent retail bankers in the Asia Pacific region

Professional Affiliations

Ms.Kochar is a member of the Prime Minister’s Council on Trade & Industry, US-India CEO Forum, Executive Board of the Indian School of Business, Hyderabad, Member of the Board of Governors of Indian Council for Research on International Economic Relations (ICRIER), Member of the Managing Committee of the Indian Banks Association and also a member of the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) Society.

These pioneers have prime roles in multibillion-dollar funds

By industry estimates, about $2 trillion is invested in global hedge funds. And as anyone familiar with Wall Street should know, the lion’s share of that cash is managed by men.

But women are carving out a bigger piece of the hedge fund world. According to The Hedge Fund Journal, women were running about $100 billion of that total in 2011 — and when COOs are included along with researchers and executive teams, that total moves up to $200 billion. True, 10% of the total isn’t a lot to crow about — we are hardly at a place where the industry is truly “equal opportunity.” But considering Wall Street was exclusively a man’s world just several decades ago, it is worth noting that women are indeed on the rise. ….article

Paul Volcker is a former chairman of the US Federal Reserve Board.

HONG KONG – Nowadays there is ample evidence that financial systems, whether in Asia in the 1990’s or a decade later in the United States and Europe, are vulnerable to breakdowns. The cost in interrupted growth and unemployment has been intolerably large.

Illustration by John Overmyer

But, in the absence of international consensus on some key points, reform will be greatly weakened, if not aborted. The freedom of money, financial markets, and people to move – and thus to escape regulation and taxation – might be an acceptable, even constructive, brake on excessive official intervention, but not if a deregulatory race to the bottom prevents adoption of needed ethical and prudential standards……article

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Fed reports U.S. families lost 39% of worth in recession

Financial crisis erases two decades of accumulated prosperity of US families.

The Economic Times

The recent financial crisis left the median U.S. family in 2010 with no more wealth than it had in the early 1990s, erasing almost two decades of accumulated prosperity, the Federal Reserve said Monday.

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Woman lost 2 billion

Ina Drew, the Woman who lost 2 billion dollars at JPMorgan Chase

“JPMorgan’s Chief Investment Officer Ina Drew Embraced Risk Before ‘Egregious’ Trade Loss”

Drew, who made about $14 million last year and is considered one of the most powerful women on Wall Street got fired….article

Drew job description here:

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