Deven Sharma

Sharma attended De Nobili School, FRI, Digwadih, Dhanbad.^[1] He received his Bachelor's Degree from Birla Institute of Technology, Ranchi, India, a Master's Degree from University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee and a Doctoral degree in Business Management from Ohio State University.^[2]

He was named president of Standard & Poor's in August 2007. In August 2011, he announced that he would step down from the position of president later in the year.^[3]

Sharma serves on the boards of CRISIL, The US-China Business Council^[4] and Asia Society Business Council. He served as a Director of 1-800-Flowers.com Inc. from 12 May 2005 to 16 March 2007.^{[citation needed]}

Deven Sharma became the public face of the firm in the wake of its downgrade of the United States' long-term debt rating on 5 August 2011.^[5] According to Reuters News Service,^[6] S&P announced on 23 August 2011 that Deven Sharma would step down as a Chief of Standard & Poor's effective 12 September 2011, and would leave the company by the end of the year.^{[citation needed]}

• Standard & Poor's, Management Bios
• Profile at SEC Roundtable
• Appearances on C-SPAN
• Business profile^{[dead link]} at Bloomberg Businessweek
• When Wall Street Nearly Collapsed, Deven Sharma, CNN Money, 2009
• Deven Sharma to head S&P, Corbet quits
• "Why Ratings Requirements Don’t Make Sense" WSJ 2010, Op-Ed by Deven Sharma
• "Q.&A. With S&P’s President on the State of Ratings" NYT 2010