Mr. Pramod Panda is currently associated with CAFRAL’s learning activities as Senior Program Director. He is a career central banker, specializing in financial regulation, supervision and inclusion. He holds a Masters’ Degree in Financial Regulation from London School of Economics and Political Science, UK. As General Manager and Chief General Manager at the Department of Banking Supervision (DBS), Central Office of RBI he has led projects for implementation of Risk Based Supervision , Pillar 2 of Basel II, Financial Conglomerate Supervision and cross border supervision and supervisory cooperation. He has been a member of the Task Force that advised the Accord Implementation Group of The Basel Committee on Banking Supervision (BCBS) in finalizing the Good Practice Principles on Supervisory Colleges. He has long and extensive experience in RBI’s onsite supervision and off site monitoring of commercial banks. He has also headed the Financial Fraud Monitoring Cell of DBS.

Mr Panda has been with the International Monetary Fund for three years as Resident Advisor at its Technical Assistance Centre (AFRITAC South), Mauritius where he assisted the central banks of thirteen southern African countries in strengthening their financial sector supervision. He has also been the Principal of RBI’s College of Agricultural Banking, Pune which builds capacity amongst bankers in India and South Asia in inclusive finance. He was RBI Nominee Director on the Board of Bank of India. He has done the Sloan Executive Education Programme on MIT’s Approach to Design Thinking from Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA.