Senior Associate Director of the SMU Office of Postgraduate Professional Programmes, S.N. Venkat, wrote about the growing trend of women heading India's financial institutions. He commented that these women are not only leading government-owned banks like the State Bank of India (SBI) but major Indian private-sector banks as well. Mr Venkat said that in addition, India's transformative attitude to female education, – steps by the Indian government to promote diversity – had played a key role in promoting the trend of women heading India's financial institutions.