Deepak Parekh

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Deepak Parekh
Parekh (left) seated with Timothy Geithner at a CII meeting in October 2009.
Born (1944-10-18) 18 October 1944 (age 79)
Alma mater
OccupationFormer Non-Executive Chairman of the HDFC
AwardsPadma Bhushan

Deepak Parekh (born 18 October 1944) is an Indian businessman and the former Chairman of Housing Development Finance Corporation, India's leading housing private development finance institution. It is based in Mumbai.[1][2]

Education

Parekh completed his schooling at

Sydenham College affiliated with the University of Mumbai.[4] He went to England in 1965 to qualify as a chartered accountant with the ICAEW; he completed his articles with Whinney, Smith and Whinney (which later became Ernst & Young
) in London.

He also cleared the Certified Associate of Indian Institute of Bankers (CAIIB) of

Ernst & Ernst in New York.[5]

Career

Parekh has worked at

SingTel. Parekh is an advisory board member of AIESEC
India and US Engineering consultancy giant, AECOM and Tribeca Developers.

Parekh has been a member of various Committees set up by the Government of India. He was appointed Chairman of the high level expert committee formed to recommend measures for strengthening the Unit Scheme in 1964. The Reserve Bank of India appointed him Chairman of the Advisory Group for Securities Market Regulation, which was tasked to compare the level of adherence to international standards in India with that in other countries. He was also Chairman of the Expert Committee constituted by the Ministry of Power to look into the reform efforts in the power sector.

Awards and honors

Deepak Parekh has won several awards including Businessman of the Year 1996 from Business India and the

IIMUN.[9]

References

  1. ^ Profile at Forbes.com
  2. ^ Chatterjee, Dev (28 March 2002). "If Govt. can't protect lives, it should go". Mumbai: The Milli Gazette.
  3. ^ Modak, Sadaf (7 October 2010). "Alumni go back to school". Hindustan Times. Retrieved 2 September 2015.[dead link]
  4. ^ "Deepak S. Parekh BCom FCA: Executive Profile & Biography". Bloomberg. Retrieved 2 September 2015.
  5. ^ Young, Colin (17 April 2010). "A rich legacy". GAA Accounting. Retrieved 2 September 2015.
  6. ^ "Padma Awards" (PDF). Ministry of Home Affairs, Government of India. 2015. Archived from the original (PDF) on 15 October 2015. Retrieved 21 July 2015.
  7. ICAEW
    , 2 February 2010
  8. ^ "Deepak Parekh appointed special advisor to Gavaskar". The Hindu. 11 April 2014. Retrieved 23 October 2018.
  9. ^ "I.I.M.U.N. || Board of Advisors". new.iimun.in. Retrieved 17 July 2021.
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