List of chairpersons of the State Bank of India

The chairperson of the State Bank of India is the chief executive officer of India's largest scheduled commercial bank and the ex-officio chair of its Central Board of Directors. Since its establishment in 1955 by the government of India, the State Bank of India has been headed by twenty-sevenchairpersons.

The term of office typically runs for three years and can, in some cases, be extended for another two years. However, in practice, only four Chairmen, Raj Kumar Talwar, O. P. Bhatt, Arundhati Bhattacharya and Dinesh Kumar Khara had their terms extended. Arundhati Bhattacharya was also the first female chairperson of the bank and continues to be the only woman to have held that post.

The inaugural officeholder was the Indian railway minister John Matthai, while Raj Kumar Talwar holds the unique distinction of having been in office for the longest time. H. V. R. Iengar and P. C. Bhattacharya also held the post of governor of the Reserve Bank of India. Borra Venkatappaiah also held the post of the Deputy governor of the Reserve Bank of India.

Although the State Bank of India, through its predecessors, the Imperial Bank of India and others, has existed in some form since 1806, this article strives to list only those chairmen who have headed the bank since its formation in its modern form, that is since 1955.

Challa Sreenivasulu Setty is the current chairman of the State Bank of India since 28 August 2024.

SBI chairman list +List of chairpersons of the State Bank of India Officeholder Portrait Term start Term end Term in office Background Other offices held References1John Matthai1 July 195530 September 1956EconomistMinister of Railways and Minister of Finance2H. V. R. Iengar1 October 195628 February 1957Indian Civil Service officerGovernor of the Reserve Bank of India3P. C. Bhattacharya1 March 195728 February 1962Indian Audits and Accounts Service officerGovernor of the Reserve Bank of India4Borra Venkatappaiah1 March 196228 February 1965Indian Civil Service (ICS) officerDeputy governor of the Reserve Bank of India5V. T. Dehejia1 March 196528 February 1969Career civil servantIndian Civil Service officer6Raj Kumar Talwar1 March 19693 August 1976(longest tenure)Career banker7T. R. Varadachary4 August 197630 April 1977Career banker8P. C. D. Nambiar23 May 197713 December 1982Career banker9V. S. Natarajan20 December 198230 January 1983Career banker10R. P. Goyal31 January 198330 November 1983Career banker11Vishwanath N. Nadkarni1 December 198327 July 1984Career banker12D. N. Ghosh13 May 198512 May 1989Career civil servantIndian Audit and Accounts Service officer13Atal V.15 January 199017 February 1990Career banker14M. N. Goiporia19 February 199031 July 1992Career bankerChairman of the Central Bank of India15Dipankar Basu25 February 199331 August 1995Career bankerEconomist16P. G. Kakodkar1 October 199531 March 1997Career bankerChairman of the Goa Public Service Commission17M. S. Verma1 April 199730 September 1998Career bankerChairman of the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India18M. P. Radhakrishnan1 December 199831 January 1999Career bankerEconomist19G. G. Vaidya1 February 19991 October 2000Career bankerChairman of the State Bank of Travancore20Janki Vallabh1 November 200031 October 2002Career bankerEconomist21Arun Kumar Purwar13 November 200231 May 2006Career bankerChairman of the Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce & Industry Senior lecturer at the University of Allahabad22O. P. Bhatt1 July 200631 March 2011Career bankerChairman of the Indian Banks' Association23Pratip Chaudhuri7 April 201130 September 2013Career bankerChairman of the State Bank of Saurashtra24Arundhati Bhattacharya1 October 20136 October 2017Career bankerHead of India Operations of Salesforce25Rajnish Kumar7 October 20176 October 2020Career bankerChairman of the Indian Institute of Banking and Finance26Dinesh Kumar Khara7 October 202028 August 2024Career bankerChairman of the SBI Life Insurance Company27Challa Sreenivasulu Setty28 August 2024IncumbentCareer BankerManaging Director of the State Bank of India

See also

State Bank of India

List of banks that have merged to form the State Bank of India

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