A central banker for more than three decades and a half, Dr. Rabi N. Mishra was the Executive Director at RBI, INDIA’s Central bank. In this capacity, he was looking after the areas of Supervision (and SupTech) of Commercial Banks, Urban Cooperative Banks & Non- Banking Financial Companies in India. He had earlier held the positions of the Head of Risk Monitoring, Financial Stability, and the Central Training Institute of RBI. He was also the Administrative Head of RBI in the provincial states of Uttar Pradesh, Uttarakhand, and Jharkhand.
He is currently the Director of “College of Supervisors” a new capacity-building institution established by the Reserve Bank of India for the personnel in the Supervision, Regulation, and Financial Stability space in India and other jurisdictions. The aim of this institution is to create capable functionaries who can help reduce the probability of distress in the financial systems.
He has worked as a member on the Boards of two Commercial Banks in India and a few Committees of the Financial Stability Board. He had the opportunities to work closely with the IMF and the BIS too. He had helped set up of the Macro-Financial Surveillance Architecture for India as well as Oman. He has a Ph.D. in Economics and had a stint as a Post-Doctoral research fellow at the Economics Department of Harvard University. His professional expertise hinges on Macroeconomic Policy issues, Regulation/Supervision, Financial Crisis Resolution, Macro-Financial Surveillance, Risk Management, and Executive Learning Management.