Ardeshir Darabshaw Shroff (Paperback)

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Ardeshir Darabshaw Shroff (1899-1965) was an eminent industrialist, banker and economist of India. In 1944, Shroff served as a non-official (since India was not yet independent) delegate at the United Nations "Bretton Woods Conference" on post-war monetary and financial systems. In the same year, and with seven other leading industrialists, Shroff co- authored the Bombay Plan, which was a set of proposals for the development of the post- independence Indian economy. In the 1950s, Shroff was founder-director of the Investment Corporation of India and company chairman of Bank of India and the New India Assurance Company Limited. In 1956, Shroff co-founded the Forum of Free Enterprise think tank as a means to counter the socialist tendencies of the Nehru government. Shroff also served as company director of the Tata Group and of several other leading private industries.