Ardeshir Darabshaw Shroff

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.

A biography of Shroff, commissioned by the Forum of Free Enterprise, was published in 2000 by Sucheta Dalal.

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