Naina Lal Kidwai

CA. Naina Lal Kidwai is an Indian businesswoman. She is currently the Group General Manager and Country Head of the HSBC Group in India.^[1][2][3]

Education

An Indian chartered accountant^[4], Kidwai earned a Bachelors degree in Economics from Lady Shri Ram College for Women, Delhi University^[5] and an MBA from Harvard Business School^[6] (graduated 1982). She was the first Indian woman to graduate from Harvard Business School^[7].

Career

From 1982-1994 she worked at ANZ Grindlays, where her assignments included Head of the Investment Bank , Head of Global NRI Services and Head of the Western India, Retail Bank. During 1994-2002, she worked at Morgan Stanley as Vice Chairman of JM Morgan Stanley and Head of the Investment Bank in India. At HSBC she has held positions as Chief Executive Officer and Deputy Chief Executive Officer of HSBC Bank in India and Managing Director and Managing Director of HSBC Securities and Capital Markets India Private Limited. She became the group's country head in 2009.

Her other positions include being a non-executive director on the board of Nestle SA, Chairman, City of London's Advisory Council for India, Global Advisor, Harvard Business School. She is on the Governing Board of NCAER, Audit Advisory Board of the Comproller and Auditor General of India, and on the National Executive Committee of CII and FICCI. Her interests include microfinance and livelihood creation for rural women and environment. Naina, also supports the world's largest youth driven organization - AIESEC as a National Advisory Board Member to AIESEC India.

Awards and recognitions

Kidwai has repeatedly ranked in the Fortune global list of Top Women in Business, 12th in the Wall Street Journal 2006 Global Listing of Women to Watch ad listed by Time Magazine as one of their 15 Global Influentials 2002^[8]. In 2007, She received the Padma Shri, for her work in the promotion of Trade and Industry.

Personal life

Naina is married to Rashid Kidwai, who runs the NGO, Grassroot Trading Network for Women.

Reference

1. ^ Naina Lal Kidwai: Managing director of HSBC India
2. ^ Naina Lal Kidwai to head HSBC India ops
3. ^ HSBC needs to have one face for its Indian businesses: Kidwai
4. ^ Naina Lal Kidwai: chartered accountant
5. ^ Lady Shri Ram College for Women, Delhi University
6. ^ Harvard Business School
7. ^ Naina Lal Kidwai Story - Harvard Business School
8. ^ Naina Kidwai named among world's top business influentials - Times Of India