Deepak Parekh
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Deepak Parekh | |
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.jpg) Parekh (left) seated with Timothy Geithner at a CII meeting in October 2009. | |
| Born | 18 October 1944 |
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| 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]
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 articleship 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]
