Yogesh Chander Deveshwar was born on 4 February 1947 in Lahore, British India.

[1] He received a bachelor's degree in mechanical engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi in 1968.

[4] He was a director on the central board of the Reserve Bank of India, a member of the National Foundation for Corporate Governance, and a member of the governing body of the National Council of Applied Economic Research.

[citation needed] Deveshwar was India's longest-serving CEO at the time of his death,[5] and earned nearly triple the second-highest salary in his company.

[7] In 2013, he was listed as the best performing CEO in India by Harvard Business Review and seventh in the world.