Dr Amarendra Sahoo, Chairman

Dr Amarendra Sahoo, is Ex Chief General Manager and Regional Director of  Reserve Bank of India (RBI), with over three decades of experience in public policy in India & abroad. During his association with the RBI, Dr. Sahoo held many administrative and policy framing posts. He is a leading expert on bank regulation and supervision having interacted with the monetary authorities of Hong Kong, Singapore, Malaysia and Korea. He was involved with the team negotiating on Financial Services in the India-Singapore Comprehensive Economic Cooperation Agreement (CECA), a member of World Bank's Supervision Mission on Financial Sector Development Project. As the head of RBI in North East, Uttar Pradesh & Uttarakhand, he was responsible for creating a robust payment system infrastructure in the regions. Dr. Sahoo was nominee Director on Boards of State Bank of Patiala, Gramin Banks, State Finance Corporation, Sikkim Bank Ltd, with sound global experience in bank regulation and supervision. He represented India in Asian and Pacific Regional Agri Credit Association meets in Malaysia and Philippines. He was Member Secretary of Financial Sector Plan for North East India, coordinator of the High Level delegation to study financial and corporate restructuring at Thailand and Korea in the aftermath of the East Asian crisis and helped formulate the stressed asset resolution framework in India. He was formerly a consultant with HCL Infosystem, World Bank, Washington DC, and visiting Professor, City University of New York. Dr. Sahoo holds a Ph. D. in Economics from IIT, Bombay for his work on Financial Market and Structure of Interest rates, Masters from Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi and Sanford School of Public Policy, Duke University, USA (as RBI Golden Jubilee Scholar).