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Who is Madhabi Puri Buch?

Madhabi Puri Buch is the first-female chairperson of India's markets regulator Securities and Exchange Board of India (Sebi) since March 1, 2022.
 
Madhabi, a former whole-time member (WTM) of Sebi, replaced Ajay Tyagi, whose five-year term came to an end. The IIM-Ahmedabad alumnus is the youngest Sebi chief and the first person from the private sector to head the securities market watchdog.

Puri Buch oversees key departments relating to regulation, supervision and surveillance and spearheads economic and policy analysis, investor assistance and education and information technology departments. 
 
The chief has direct supervision of the National Institute of Securities Markets (NISM). 
 
She is the founder-director of Agora Advisory Pvt Ltd, a consulting and incubation firm, and has also worked at the New Development Bank in China prior to her appointment as the Sebi chairperson.
 
Buch has three decades of financial market experience. She joined ICICI Bank in 1989 and worked as an investment banker, headed the country's leading broking outfit, held a senior position at a private equity major and had a brief stint with the New Development Bank, set up by the BRICS bloc of nations.
 
Education and career
 
Madhabi Puri Buch holds an MBA degree from the Indian Institute of Management (IIM) Ahmedabad and has a graduate degree in Mathematics from St Stephen's College, New Delhi.
 
She has served as the Consultant to the New Development Bank in Shanghai and as the Head of the Singapore office of the Private Equity Firm, Greater Pacific Capital. 
 
She also worked as the Managing Director (MD) and Chief Executive Officer (CEO) at ICICI Securities Limited and as the Executive Director, on the Board of ICICI bank.
 
She has also set up a small foundation that undertakes projects with grassroot NGOs. Buch has also served as a non-executive director on the Boards of various companies. Puri Buch has worked closely with Tyagi during her stint as WTM between April 05, 2017, and October 04, 2021. 
 
As Sebi’s WTM, she has handled key portfolios such as surveillance, mutual funds, and collective investment schemes.

Latest Updates on Madhabi Puri Buch

Industry experts say it could help attract global players

Updated On: 04 Apr 2023 | 11:10 PM IST

To strengthen corporate governance norms, Sebi decided to end the practice of individuals having permanent seats on boards of listed companies

Updated On: 29 Mar 2023 | 6:36 PM IST

At the event, Sebi Chairperson Madhabi Puri Buch emphasised the potential of municipal bonds in infrastructure development and nation building

Updated On: 22 Jan 2023 | 5:27 PM IST

Buybacks will be undertaken through a separate window on stock exchanges until then

Updated On: 20 Dec 2022 | 11:17 PM IST

Seeks the Sebi chair's intervention and probe in specific cases of violations

Updated On: 08 Dec 2022 | 9:09 PM IST

Buch calls for independence of emerging economies in ESG matters, carbon credit pricing

Updated On: 29 Nov 2022 | 6:35 PM IST

Regulator equipped with numerous new algos for surveillance, inspection, says chairperson

Updated On: 10 Oct 2022 | 11:10 PM IST

Buch also said that if your business model is woven around a black box, which is not open to sunlight for disinfecting or not capable of being audited or validated, it cannot be permitted.

Updated On: 21 Sep 2022 | 8:16 PM IST

The warnings from the markets regulator come amid reports that it may clamp down on algo trading, which in the past has been misused by certain brokers with the connivance of top NSE officials.

Updated On: 21 Sep 2022 | 4:40 PM IST

She added that there needs to be more disclosures by companies on how valuations have changed between a pre-initial public offering (IPO) placement and the price which is being asked for in the issue

Updated On: 13 Sep 2022 | 6:07 PM IST

From domestic MFs' AUM crossing Rs 30 trillion to the landmark LIC and Zomato IPOs and the appointment of India's first woman securities regulator, here are the 9 biggest events for markets since 2021

Updated On: 12 Aug 2022 | 3:25 PM IST

Industry players credit Sebi's first woman chairperson with putting special emphasis on cyber security, use of tech and data - areas where Sebi is trying to 'stay ahead of the curve'

Updated On: 10 Jun 2022 | 10:52 PM IST

Indian equity mutual funds have lured billions of dollars in inflows over the last couple of years amid a retail-investing boom

Updated On: 10 May 2022 | 8:36 AM IST

AA ecosystem is a UPI moment for the lending ecosystem as it will allow sharing of data seamlessly and fast and without the need for physical documents.

Updated On: 30 Apr 2022 | 1:40 PM IST

Sebi Chairperson Madhabi Puri Buch on Tuesday appeared before a parliamentary panel and was questioned on the NSE controversy, Sahara case and share offers of Paytm and Ruchi Soya, sources said

Updated On: 05 Apr 2022 | 10:03 PM IST

According to sources, Buch is also expected to be questioned about the recent National Stock Exchange (NSE) scam

Updated On: 05 Apr 2022 | 5:42 PM IST

The top ten winners of the ideathon stand would get cash prizes worth Rs 5,00,000

Updated On: 30 Mar 2022 | 10:10 PM IST