Vijayalakshmi Rajaram Iyer

Smt. Vijayalakshmi Rajaram Iyer is a Post Graduate of Sydenham College of Commerce Mumbai. She is also a certified associate of the Indian Institute of Banking and Finance. She has nearly four decades of experience in the banking and finance sector in India. She has served as the chairperson for several boards and committees in the financial sector including the Banking and Financial Institute Committee of the Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry. She retired as the chairman and managing director of the Bank of India in May 2015. Under her leadership, Bank of India received the ‘Best PSU Bank’ award for overall growth in performance from Dun & Bradstreet and was recognized as the ‘Second Most Trusted Brand among the PSU Banks’ by the Economic Times. She had also got the opportunity of setting up the Risk Management Department for the Bank putting in place various policies, processes, and systems for various types of Risks in the Bank. She also served as a member (finance & investment) at IRDAI from 2015 to 2017.