Sutapa Banerjee

Sutapa Banerjee has over three decades of professional experience. She spent 24 years in the financial services industry across 2 large multinational banks (ANZ Grindlays and ABN AMRO), and a boutique Indian Investment bank (Ambit) where she built and headed several businesses. A well recognized thought leader in the Wealth Management space having headed and successfully built from scratch the Private Wealth businesses in both ABN AMRO Bank and Ambit Capital, Sutapa was voted one of the ‘Top 20 Global Rising Stars of Wealth Management’ by the Institutional Investor Group in 2007 - the only Indian and one of only two winners from Asia. As CEO she led Ambit Private Wealth to ‘Best Private Bank in India in the 2013 AsiaMoney polls. In 2012 she was shortlisted in the ’50 most Powerful Women’ by Fortune India. Currently she serves as an Independent Director on the boards of Zomato Limited, Godrej Properties, Polycab Industries, JSW Cement, Axis Capital, Manappuram Finance, Camlin Fine Sciences and Niyogin Fintech. She has been a Director on the board of Oxfam and represented Women’s World Banking as their Nominee Director in India. In addition, she works as a Decision Coach for senior leadership talent. Sutapa is an Advanced Leadership Fellow (2015) at Harvard University. She teaches, consults, trains, writes and speaks both internationally and in India on Behavioural Insights in Decision-making and the use of Design interventions. As a Visiting Faculty with IIM-Ahmedabad she taught an elective on Behavioural Biases in Decision making and its impact on Corporate Practices with a focus on Gender titled ‘A Gender Lens on Corporate Policies’, a first for any business school anywhere. Sutapa is also an adjunct faculty with IICA – the Government of India think tank under the Ministry of Corporate Affairs. Sutapa is a gold medalist in Economics from the XLRI school of Management in India, and an Economics major from Presidency College Kolkata. She has served on the CII National Committee on ‘Women’s Empowerment’ and ‘The Indian Women Network’, the CII National Committee on ‘Integrity and Transparency in Governance’ and the Advisory Panel of the ‘India Responsible Business Forum’. ​