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Deepak Parekh
Deepak Parekh
	Parekh (left) seated with Timothy Geithner at a CII meeting in October 2009.
Born	18 October 1944 (age 80)
Alma mater	Sydenham College of Commerce and Economics, Mumbai; Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales;
Occupation	Former Non-Executive Chairman of the HDFC
Relatives	Hasmukhbhai Parekh (uncle)
Awards	Padma 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 St. Xavier's High School, Fort^[3] and later graduated with a B.Com from 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 Indian Institute of Banking and Finance. He cleared his ACA exams in the first attempt and was afterwards posted at the firm's consulting arm Ernst & Ernst in New York.^[5]

Career

Parekh has worked at Ernst & Young, Grindlays Bank, and Chase Manhattan Bank as its assistant representative for South Asia. He joined Housing Development Finance Corporation (HDFC) in 1978. HDFC was founded by his uncle, Hasmukhbhai Parekh.^[6] Parekh also became the Non-Executive Chairman of Infrastructure Development Finance Company Ltd (IDFC), a specialised financial institution for financing infrastructure projects in 1997. He is also the Non-Executive Chairman of Glaxo India Ltd & Burroughs Wellcome (India) Ltd and on the Board of Castrol India Limited, Fairfax India Holdings Corporation, and Siemens Ltd, Mahindra & Mahindra, Indian Hotels Company and 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 JRD Tata Corporate Leadership Award by All India Management Association (AIMA). He was the first recipient of the Qimpro Platinum Award for Quality for his contributions to the services sector, and the youngest recipient of the Corporate Award for Life Time Achievement by the Economic Times. Padma Bhushan was conferred on him by the Government of India.^[7] In 2010 he was the first international recipient of The Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales’ Outstanding Achievement Award, for his contribution over many years to the finance and accountancy profession.^[8] He was appointed as the advisor to Sunil Gavaskar who was interim chairman of IPL-7.^[9] Parekh is also on the Advisory board of IIMUN.^[10]

References

^ Profile at Forbes.com
^ Chatterjee, Dev (28 March 2002). "If Govt. can't protect lives, it should go". Mumbai: The Milli Gazette. Archived from the original on 14 May 2018. Retrieved 14 May 2018.
^ Modak, Sadaf (7 October 2010). "Alumni go back to school". Hindustan Times. Retrieved 2 September 2015.^{[dead link‍]}
^ "Deepak S. Parekh BCom FCA: Executive Profile & Biography". Bloomberg. Archived from the original on 24 September 2015. Retrieved 2 September 2015.
^ Young, Colin (17 April 2010). "A rich legacy". GAA Accounting. Archived from the original on 4 March 2016. Retrieved 2 September 2015.
^ Vanamali, Krishna Veera (5 April 2022). "How life has come full circle for Deepak Parekh?". Business Standard. Archived from the original on 24 September 2022. Retrieved 11 October 2024.
^ "Padma Awards" (PDF). Ministry of Home Affairs, Government of India. 2015. Archived from the original (PDF) on 15 October 2015. Retrieved 21 July 2015.
^ An international first - top Indian financial leader wins accountancy accolade Archived 28 December 2010 at the Wayback Machine, ICAEW, 2 February 2010
^ "Deepak Parekh appointed special advisor to Gavaskar". The Hindu. 11 April 2014. Archived from the original on 12 November 2020. Retrieved 23 October 2018.
^ "I.I.M.U.N. || Board of Advisors". new.iimun.in. Archived from the original on 17 July 2021. Retrieved 17 July 2021.