Deepak Kumar

Dr. Deepak Kumar, is Executive Director (ED), Reserve Bank of India with effect from 3rd January 2022. Prior to this, he was heading the Department of Information Technology. As Executive Director, Dr. Kumar will look after Foreign Exchange Department, Department of Communication and Deposit Insurance and Credit Guarantee Corporation (DICGC), which is a wholly owned subsidiary of the RBI.

He has experience of more than three decades for working in Central Office and four Regional Offices across the spectrum of central banking functions covering of both policy making and project management in the areas of Information and Communication Technology (ICT), Cyber Security, Payment System, Currency distribution and management, Human Resource Management and Planning, Commercial bank supervision, Foreign Exchange management, etc. He is Director of the Board of Indian Overseas Bank, NPCI, IFTAS, ReBIT, RBIH, DICGC and in the Governing Council of IDRBT. He also represented as active member in various committees and fora related to Foreign Exchange management - rationalisation and simplification, currency distribution and research, International taxation, ICT, etc.

Dr. Kumar is a Post Graduate in Economics and has obtained Ph.D on the subject ‘Impact of Computerisation on Banking Industry during Nineties - an Evaluation’. He has done PG Dip. in International Marketing from Delhi School of Economics and CAIIB from IIBF. Of late, he has obtained online Certificates on emerging technologies from various online channels.