NEW DELHI: Arundhati Bhattacharya, Chairman, State Bank of India (SBI) has been ranked 26th in the fourth edition of Fortune’s 'World 50 Greatest Leaders' list.
With this, Arundhati Bhattacharya has become the only Indian corporate leader to be featured in the list.
While announcing the names that have featured in the list, Fortune highlighted that Bhattacharya, the first-ever woman to helm India’s largest bank, has steered SBI through rough waters.
Bhattacharya has helped to accomodate the 211-year-old institution into the digital era and overhaul the human resources department for more than 2,00,000 employees.
Bhattacharya is even said to have been orchestrating a complex, six-bank merger that is expected to catapult the SBI into the ranks of the world’s 50 largest banks.