Date of birth: December 15, 1955

Qualifications: B Com (Hons), India; FCA England & Wales; FCA India

Homi Bhabha graduated with honours from the Sydenham College of Commerce & Economics, Bombay, and then served articles with Arthur Young McClelland Moores & Co (now Ernst & Young), London. He is presently a Fellow of both the Indian and English Institutes of Chartered Accountants. He returned to business in India as Director and then Vice-Chairman of Spencer & Company Limited, Madras, and was actively involved with the financial and business reconstruction of the company and its subsidiaries for 7 years.

Between 1989 and 2002, Mr Bhabha was based in London, associated with some real estate and business ventures in London and in Germany.

Mr Bhabha is a non-executive director in various Indian companies, in which he and his family have developed significant investment interests, in the fields of pharmaceuticals, automotive ancilliaries, industrial gases, insurance broking, consultancy and financial services. He is a Trustee of several charitable Trusts in Bombay, and the Managing Trustee of a temple trust in Bombay