| Rajnish Kumar | |
| Birth Date: | 14 January 1958 |
| Office: | 25th Chairperson of State Bank of India |
| Predecessor: | Arundhati Bhattacharya |
| Successor: | Dinesh Kumar Khara |
| Term Start: | 7 October 2017 |
| Term End: | 6 October 2020 |
| Residence: | Mumbai, India |
Rajnish Kumar is an Indian banker. He held the position of chairman of the State Bank of India.[1] [2]
He joined SBI as a probationary officer in 1980. He has served as managing director (National Banking Group), a position he was given on 2 November 2015 and the managing director (compliance and risk) of SBI. He also cracked the Certified Associate of Indian Institute of Bankers of Indian Institute of Banking and Finance. The senior bank official previously also headed the SBI Capital Markets Limited (the Merchant Banking arm of State Bank of India) as managing director and chief executive officer, prior to becoming managing director in SBI.[3] He is also the chairman of Management Development Institute (MDI) Gurgaon,[4] one of the top management institutes of India in the private business schools category. [5]
O. P. Bhatt lauded Kumar's experience in the corporate banking and international banking divisions of State Bank of India. Laying out his agenda Rajnish Kumar said,