GIC Advisor Emeritus

Deepak Parekh was Chairman of India’s Housing Development Finance Corporation (HDFC Ltd) from 1993 to 2023. He was a member of the GIC International Advisory Board from 2011 to 2017. He is the non-executive chairman of HDFC Asset Management Company Limited, HDFC Capital Services Ltd, Indian board of Siemens Ltd, and Leela Palaces Hotels & Resorts Ltd. He is also on the board of the National Investment and Infrastructure Fund and the international board of DP World – UAE. He sits on the international advisory board of Fairbridge Capital Pvt Ltd and Warburg Pincus LLC. Mr Parekh was awarded India’s Padma Bhushan in 2006, the Federal Republic of Germany’s Cross of the Order of Merit in 2014, the French Republic’s “Knight in the Order of the Legion of Honour” in 2010, and was the first international recipient of the ICAEW Outstanding Achievement Award in 2010. In 2017, the Mayor of London named Deepak Parekh as first of a network of international ambassadors for championing London across the globe.

Mr Parekh is a Chartered accountant from ICAEW, UK.