SEBI Chief Explains Why She Is A "Very Difficult Boss To Work With"

SEBI chief Madhabi Puri Buch shared that she abides by the mantra of doing what is right, "no matter how hard".

Madhabi Puri Buch, chairperson of the Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI), said that she has a "long list of colleagues" who have found her very difficult to work with. Ms Buch, the first woman to head the share market regulator, was speaking at the annual convocation of the Indian Institute of Management (IIM) Ahmedabad on Saturday.

Addressing the students, Ms Buch, who was invited as the chief guest at the convocation ceremony, said, “I have a long list of colleagues as well as bosses who will testify to the fact that I am not only a very difficult boss to work with but an almost impossible subordinate to work with because I just won't give up. Until a problem has been dissected to the last degree, I will not give up.”

Explaining why her colleagues feel so, the SEBI chief added, “My colleagues often tell me that problem-solving with me is like peeling an onion. It makes everybody cry in the process. But by the time you are done, peeling layer after layer after layer of the onion, you suddenly realise there is no problem left."