A vision to create a "World Class Indian Bank"

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Aditya Puri  was  born in 1950 (age 72 years),   in Gurdaspur District (Punjab) and studied at Punjab University, Chandigarh, gaining a bachelor's degree in Commerce. He qualified as a Chartered Accountant with the Institute of Chartered Accountants of India.

Aditya Puri is a senior advisor at The Carlyle Group. He was the managing director of HDFC Bank, India's largest private sector bank. He assumed this position in September 1994, with a vision to create a "World Class Indian Bank". Puri was the longest-serving head of any private bank in the country. India Today ranked him at #24 in India's 50 Most Powerful People of 2017 list.

He is the father of actress Amrita Puri and son Amit Puri. He is cousin of Bharat Puri MD of Pidilite Industries and Ex CMD of Cadbury India.

He has worked in the banking sector for 40 years, in India and other countries. He became CEO of Citibank, Malaysia in 1992. In September 1994 he returned to India as managing director of HDFC Bank.

He presided over HDFC's acquisitions of Times Bank Limited in 2000 and of Centurion Bank of Punjab in 2008.

In August 2019 he was reported to be the most highly paid CEO of any Indian bank with a monthly salary of ₹89 lakh (US$120,000).

He officially stepped down from his position in HDFC Bank on 26 October 2020. Sashidhar Jagdishan took charge as the chief executive officer (CEO) of HDFC Bank from 27 October 2020. In January 2021, he joined the biopharma company Strides Group as Advisor and will also serve as a Director of its associate company, Stelis Biopharma.

Awards and Honors’

2008

CNN-IBN Indian Businessman of the Year 2008

2013

1. Best Executive in India - Asiamoney
2. Banker of the Year 2013 - Business Standard
3. Best CEO - Institutional Investor
4. Top Achiever - Sunday Standard Best Banker Awards
5. Best Executive in India - Asia Money 2013Best Banker – FE

2015

1. Best CEO Award - Business Today
2. Business Leader of the Year - AIMA Managing India Awards 2015
3. World's 30 Best CEOs - Barron's
4. Best CEO- Finance Asia poll on Asia's Best Companies 2015

2016

1. The only Indian to feature in Fortune's Business person of the Year list.
2. Best CEO: Institutional Investor All-Asia Executive Team ranking 2016
3. Outstanding Business Leader of the year-CNBC-TV18 India Business Leader Awards (IBLA) 2015-16
4. FE Lifetime Achievement Award from Financial Express
5. Barron's World's Top 30 CEOs

2018

1. Barron's Top 30 Global CEOs
2. Named one of the "Best CEOs in the World" by the CEOWORLD magazine

2019

1. QIMPRO Platinum Standard Awards 2019 - National Statesman for Quality in Business
2. "Corporate and Philanthropic leadership Award" by American Indian Foundation
3. "AIMA - JRD TATA Corporate  Leadership  Award" by the AIMA.

2020

1. Induction in the Chartered Accountants Hall of Fame