Deven Sharma (born 1956 in Jharkhand) is an Indian businessman.

Biography

Early life and education

Sharma attended

De Nobili School, FRI De Nobili School is a private Catholic primary and secondary school located in Dhanbad, Jharkhand, India. The school is named after a Christian mission and Jesuit, Roberto de Nobili, who was the first foreigner to master Sanskrit, incognito, in ...

, Digwadih,

Dhanbad Dhanbad is the second-most populated city in the Indian state of Jharkhand after Jamshedpur. It ranks as the 42nd largest city in India and is the 33rd largest million-plus urban agglomeration in India. Dhanbad shares its land borders with Pa ...

. He received his Bachelor's Degree from Birla Institute of Technology, Ranchi,

India India, officially the Republic of India (Hindi: ), is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by area, the second-most populous country, and the most populous democracy in the world. Bounded by the Indian Ocean on the so ...

, a Master's Degree from

University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee The University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee (UW–Milwaukee, UWM, or Milwaukee) is a public urban research university in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. It is the largest university in the Milwaukee metropolitan area and a member of the University of Wiscons ...

and a Doctoral degree in Business Management from

Ohio State University The Ohio State University, commonly called Ohio State or OSU, is a public land-grant research university in Columbus, Ohio. A member of the University System of Ohio, it has been ranked by major institutional rankings among the best publ ...

Career

He was named president of Standard & Poor's in August 2007. In August 2011, he announced that he would step down from the position of president later in the year. Sharma serves on the boards of

CRISIL CRISIL (formerly ''Credit Rating Information Services of India Limited'') is an Indian analytical company providing ratings, research, and risk and policy advisory services and is a subsidiary of American company S&P Global. CRISIL, was the f ...

, The US-China Business Council and Asia Society Business Council. He served as a Director of 1-800-Flowers.com Inc. from May 12, 2005 to March 16, 2007. Deven Sharma became the public face of the firm in the wake of its downgrade of the United States' long-term debt rating on 5 Aug 2011. According to Reuters News Service, S&P announced on August 23, 2011 that Deven Sharma would step down as a Chief of Standard & Poor's effective September 12, 2011, and would leave the company by the end of the year.

References

External links

Standard & Poor's, Management Bios

at SEC Roundtable *
Business profile
at ''

Bloomberg Businessweek ''Bloomberg Businessweek'', previously known as ''BusinessWeek'', is an American weekly business magazine published fifty times a year. Since 2009, the magazine is owned by New York City-based Bloomberg L.P. The magazine debuted in New York City ...

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When Wall Street Nearly Collapsed
Deven Sharma, ''CNN Money'', 2009
Deven Sharma to head S&P, Corbet quits

“Why Ratings Requirements Don’t Make Sense” WSJ 2010, Op-Ed by Deven Sharma

“Q.&A. With S&P’s President on the State of Ratings” NYT 2010
{{DEFAULTSORT:Sharma, Deven De Nobili Schools alumni University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee alumni Ohio State University Fisher College of Business alumni Living people American financiers American people of Indian descent American Hindus Birla Institute of Technology, Mesra alumni 1956 births People from Bihar People from Dhanbad American chief executives