Shri. Diwakar Gupta is Senior Advisor (Research) at CAFRAL. Shri. Gupta superannuated from State Bank of India, India’s largest bank, with about 39 years of experience in various top executive/ senior management positions. He demitted office as Managing Director and Chief Financial Officer, SBI in 2013.
Subsequently he worked for two years as Senior Advisor (Banking Project) in Aditya Birla Nuvo Ltd., Mumbai. Later Shri. Gupta worked as Vice President at Asian Development Bank, Manila. As Vice President, he oversaw the private sector and PPP operations of the Bank and participated in the Bank’s broader corporate initiatives like launching and operationalizing the biometric based National ID system of Philippines (akin to Aadhar), creating ADB Ventures, a...
Shri. Diwakar Gupta is Senior Advisor (Research) at CAFRAL. Shri. Gupta superannuated from State Bank of India, India’s largest bank, with about 39 years of experience in various top executive/ senior management positions. He demitted office as Managing Director and Chief Financial Officer, SBI in 2013.
Subsequently he worked for two years as Senior Advisor (Banking Project) in Aditya Birla Nuvo Ltd., Mumbai. Later Shri. Gupta worked as Vice President at Asian Development Bank, Manila. As Vice President, he oversaw the private sector and PPP operations of the Bank and participated in the Bank’s broader corporate initiatives like launching and operationalizing the biometric based National ID system of Philippines (akin to Aadhar), creating ADB Ventures, a donor-funded hybrid venture trust fund. He worked as Chair of the Digital Innovation Sandbox, and was a member of the steering committee supervising ADB’s digital agenda.
Currently, Shri. Gupta is Independent Director on the boards of CRISIL Ratings Ltd., Mahindra Holidays & Resorts India Ltd., Holiday Club Resorts Oy, its Finland-based subsidiary, and Mahindra Susten, Fullerton India Credit Company (FICC). He is also Non-executive Chairman of India Debt Resolution Company Limited (IDRCL) and Senior Advisor with True North, a leading India-focussed PE fund.
Shri. Gupta was a Member of the Expert Committee for Resolution Framework for COVID-19-related Stress, constituted by RBI. He was Chairman of the Task Force created by Dept. of Financial Services, Min. of Finance, Govt. of India, to review consortium / multiple lending, and suggest measures to make it more efficient (September 2012). He was also a member of High-Level Steering Committee to review Supervisory Processes of Banks, chaired by Deputy Governor, Reserve Bank of India (2012).
He partnered with Unique Identification Authority of India Limited for rollout of the biometric based unique identification program of Government of India (Aadhar).
Shri. Gupta is a post graduate in Physics from University of Delhi and has done his graduation with Physics honours from St Stephen’s College, New Delhi