Rama Subramaniam Ghandi

Mr. R. Gandhi is a financial sector policy expert and adviser. His expertise includes banking and non-banking regulation, payment systems, financial markets, FinTech and currency management. He served as a Deputy Governor of the Reserve Bank of India for three years from 2014 to 2017. With 37 years of experience, he has been a seasoned and accomplished central banker. He had a three year secondment to the Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI), the capital market regulator. He also held the charge of Director of the Institute for Development and Research in Banking Technology (IDRBT), Hyderabad.

In his long and illustrious career, Mr. Gandhi has been associated with various committees, working groups and task forces, both domestic and international. He was one of the initial members of the Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) and was a member of the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision (BCBS) and the Committee on Global Financial Systems (CGFS), Basel. At present, he advises banks, finance companies and fintech entities.

Mr. Gandhi has a master’s degree in Economics from the Annamalai University, in Tamil Nadu, India. He completed post graduate level certificates in Management Information System from the American University, Washington DC, USA and in Capital Market from the City University of New York, New York, USA. His technical education includes a certificate course in System Programming from the IBM Education, Sydney, Australia. He also has a certificate in Gandhian Thoughts from the Madurai University, Tamil Nadu, India.