Atanu Chakraborty

Atanu Chakraborty is the chairperson of HDFC Bank. He was appointed by the Reserve Bank of India in April 2021. He is a retired 1985 batch officer of the Indian Administrative Service and Gujarat cadre, and served as Economic Affairs Secretary of India until his retirement in April 2020.

Education
He holds a degree in Electronics and Communication engineering from National Institute of Technology, Kurukshetra. He completed his post-graduate diploma in business finance and an MBA from the University of Hull, United Kingdom.

Career
Atanu Chakraborty has served various positions for both the Government of India and the Government of Gujarat. He has held positions in the Ministries of Finance, Ports, industries, labour, petroleum and natural gas, and Home. He also served on the Boards of state-owned enterprises.

In the Government of Gujarat, Chakraborty served as the Additional Chief Secretary of Industries and as Principal Secretary of the Finance Department. He was the chief executive of GSPC Group of companies, GSFC Limited, GSFS Limited, and the CEO of Gujarat Maritime Board. He has held the office of chief executive officer of Gujarat Infrastructure Development Board and also served as the chairperson of National Infrastructure and Investment Fund (NIIF) Chakraborty has held positions in the Ministry of Finance, Government of India. He held the posts of Secretary, DIPAM, and Secretary, Department of Economic Affairs.

Currently, Chakraborty is as an independent chairman on the board of Yubi, formerly known as CredAvenue.

Mr. Chakraborty was appointed as the Union Economic Affairs Secretary by the Appointments Committee of the Cabinet (ACC) in July 2019. He was succeeded by Subhash Chandra Garg.

He has served as the secretary of the Department of Investment and Public Asset Management (DIPAM) in the Ministry of Finance (India).

Mr. Chakraborty has served as the Director General of Directorate General of Hydrocarbons (DGH) in the Ministry of Petroleum.

He also served as managing director of Gujarat State Financial Services Ltd.

Mr. Chakraborty was the MD of Gujarat State Petroleum Corporation, an Indian Oil & Gas company.