Indrani Banerjee is the Additional Director responsible for the Learning activities at CAFRAL. Prior to joining CAFRAL, she was Executive Director, Reserve Bank of India where her responsibilities spanned the areas of financial market regulation, foreign exchange management, external investments & operations, and legal.

As a part of senior management, her experience encompassed banking regulation, supervision of commercial banks and foreign exchange reserves management. She has also worked in the Monetary Policy Department of the Bank.

While at RBI, she headed several important committees such as the Taskforce for Urban Cooperative Banks and Standing Committee on Currency Management. She had represented the Bank in domestic and international fora on matters including External Audit and Leadership Imperatives & participated in events such as the International Roundtable on the Basel Consultative Paper on Corporate Governance and the World Bank/IMF International Conference on Policy Challenges for the Financial Sector.

While on deputation as Member of Faculty to the National Institute of Bank Management (NIBM) in the area of Money, International Banking & Finance, she was actively involved in capacity building and also coordinated a course on International Banking & Foreign Exchange in the first Post Graduate (MBA) Program on Banking and Finance.

She had a short stint in the South Asia Department of the International Finance Corporation in Washington DC. She has been a nominee director on the Board of EXIM Bank and represented RBI as ex-officio member of the International Financial Services Centres Authority (IFSCA).

She is an alumna of Lady Shri Ram College, Delhi University and has an M.Phil degree in International Relations from JNU and a Masters in International Development Policy from the Sanford Institute of Public Policy, Duke University. She is a Certified Associate of the Indian Institute of Bankers. 

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.