Lalita D. Gupte, Joint Managing Director of

ICICI Bank ICICI Bank Limited is an Indian Private bank. It is headquartered at Mumbai. It offers a wide range of banking products and financial services for corporate and retail customers through a variety of delivery channels and specialized subsidiari ...

(India’s second largest

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), until 31 October 2006, is an important figure in India’s

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and financial services sector. An

INSEAD INSEAD, a contraction of "Institut Européen d'Administration des Affaires" () is a non-profit business school that maintains campuses in Europe (Fontainebleau, France), Asia (Singapore), the Middle East (Abu Dhabi, UAE), and North America (San ...

alumnus, Gupte was listed by the Fortune "as one of the fifty most powerful women in international business." She is currently the Chairperson on the Board of ICICI Venture and a board member of

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.On 22 June 2010 she was appointed as member of Alstom’s Board of directors.

Career

Recruited directly from the Mumbai-based

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, Gupte had begun her career with ICICI Ltd (which later merged with ICICI Bank) in 1971 as a trainee in the Project Appraisal department. She served in different locations and capacities, and had played a pivotal role in the listing of ICICI share in the

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(NYSE) – the first Indian enterprise to be listed in NYSE, and the second Asian Bank to do so. Gupte was made Joint Managing Director of ICICI Bank in 2001, and at the same time was made in-charge of the Bank's growing international operations. In May 2007 Gupte was named to the board of the Finnish mobilephone giant Nokia.

Contributions

Her contributions have been widely recognized, and the awards conferred on her include the following: *The twenty First Century for Banking Finance and Banking award (1997) by Ladies Wing of the

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*The Women Achievers Award (2001) from the Women graduates’ Association. *Women of the Year Award (2002) by the International Women’s’ Association.

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