Mr. Gurumoorthy Mahalingam is a Whole Time Member (Executive Board Member) of Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI) looking after Corporate Finance Department, Foreign Portfolio Investors, Investigations Departments and the Office of Investor Assistance and Education.

Prior to the current assignment, Mr Mahalingam was an Executive Director in the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) looking after the Market operations, both Rupee liquidity and FX operations. In his stint of 34 years with RBI, he has taken on varied roles like Chief Forex Dealer, Chief Investment Dealer for Forex Reserves Management, Head of Debt Management. He has also been actively involved in regulation and development of Money, Bond and Foreign Exchange and Derivative markets in India. His prior assignments in RBI include Bank Examiner as also a Member of Teaching Faculty in RBI’s Officers’ Training College.

He is a Masters Degree holder in Statistics and Operations Research from the Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur and M.B.A in International Banking and Finance from the Birmingham Business School, UK. He has also done extensive work in the area of investor education along with SEBI, NISM and various Asset Management Companies.

Prof N R Bhanumurthy has taken charge as a first Vice-Chancellor of Bengaluru Dr. B.R. Ambedkar School of Economics University (BASE University). He is currently on leave from NIPFP, New Delhi, where he was a Professor since 2009. Prior to this he worked as Assistant Professor and Associate Professor at Institute of Economic Growth, Delhi.

His research areas are macro-monetary economics, fiscal policy, international money & finance, macroeconomic modeling and development economics. In these areas he has authored over 70 research papers and five books. He had brief stints at UNESCAP, Bangkok and at UNDP RCC at Colombo as Macroeconomist. He was a Visiting Fellow at MSH, Paris, Mcgill University, Montreal and ADB, Manila. He has been a consultant to UN-DESA (New York), UN-ESCWA (Beirut), UNDP-Nepal, UNDP-Bhutan, UNESCAP, ILO, the World Bank, and ADB India.

He has served on over 22 government committees constituted by Finance Ministry, Ministry of Statistics, Ministry of Rural Development, National Statistical Commission, erstwhile Planning Commission, NITI Aayog, RBI, Government of Karnataka, among others. Currently he is serving on ‘Advisory Committee on Ways and Means Advances to State Governments’ constituted by RBI; Advisory Committee on National Accounts Statistics’ constituted by Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation; ‘High Level Committee on Monitoring and Evaluation’ by Ministry of Rural Development, GoI. Dr Bhanumurthy has been the Secretary of the Indian Econometric Society since 2006 and also Managing Trustee of Indian Economic Association Trust for Research and Development since 2010.

He has received two prestigious awards: Mahalanobis Memorial Medal (National) Award for the year 2014 for his outstanding contributions to the field of quantitative economics in India; and “VKRV Rao Prize in Social Sciences (Economics)” for the year 2015, for high quality research and for significant contributions to social science research in India.

Dr. Pami Dua is Professor of Economics, Delhi School of Economics as well as Chairperson, Research Council, Dean Research (Humanities and Social Sciences) and Dean, Academic Activities and Projects, University of Delhi. She is currently member of the Monetary Policy Committee of the Reserve Bank of India.

She has served as Director of the Delhi School of Economics and President of the Indian Econometric Society. She has also served as the Editor of Indian Economic Review, a reputed journal of the Delhi School of Economics, for almost two decades. She is also a member of the Governing Council of the Madras Institute of Development Studies. She is affiliated with the Economic Cycle Research Institute, New York and is Principal Coordinator from India of the United Nations World Project LINK.

She has published numerous research papers in reputed international journals as well as books and book chapters in her fields of study viz. time series econometrics, forecasting, macroeconometrics, monetary policy and business cycle analysis.

She has over three decades of experience in teaching of macroeconomics, econometrics and forecasting. She earlier taught at the University of Connecticut, USA and Wayne State University, Michigan, USA. She has also been affiliated with Yale University as well as Columbia University.

She completed her B.A. (Hons.) in Economics from Lady Shri Ram College, University of Delhi and is also the recipient of the Distinguished Alumni Award from her alma mater. She obtained her Masters and Doctorate in Economics.

Dr. Shubhada M. Rao is the Founder of QuantEco, an independent lead research house specialising in delivering business economics and financial markets intelligence to corporates and investors. Prior to setting up QuantEco, she served as a Senior Group President & Chief Economist at YES BANK. She was responsible for Business Economics Banking, providing macroeconomic research outlook at the Bank.

Shubhada brings with her over 30 years of experience in academia and industry. Prior to her current stint as an independent Economist, Shubhada has worked as Chief Economist with marquee financial sector entities like Kotak Institutional Equities, CRISIL and Times Bank and as Economist with Risk Department at Bank of Baroda. A gold medalist from University of Mumbai, she began her career in banking with ICICI in their planning and treasury department after completing her PhD in Economics from the University of Mumbai.

In the past, she has held various industry association positions such as 1) Chairperson of Economics Committee of Bombay Chamber of Commerce & Industry, 2) Member of CII National Economic Policy Council, New Delhi, 3) Co-Chair of the Economics Committee at ASSOCHAM, and 4) Member of the Monetary Policy Group – Indian Banks’ Association (IBA).

As a thought leader, she has made extensive presentations on Indian Economy to central banks including the Federal Reserve BoE, Bank of Canada, Ministers and delegations/ Secretaries of State of the UK & US, Consul Generals, High Commissioners of many Embassies, G20-IIF meetings, among others. Her views have often been aired on domestic and international electronic and print media like CNBC, ETNow, BBC-World, CNN, Bloomberg Asia and local business dailies. Under her leadership her team was often ranked among Top 3 forecasters of Indian economic indicators by Bloomberg and was the cited as top forecaster for currency in 2016 by Reuters.

Shri. Sujit Prasad, presently Executive Director in charge of Market Regulation Department and Department of Debt & Hybrid Securities, has been with SEBI for more than two decades. He has vast experience of working in various SEBI Departments like Investigation, Surveillance, Derivatives, Market Intermediaries’ Supervision, etc.

He has been the co-chair of IOSCO Task Force on OTC Derivative Reforms, Member Secretary of RBI/SEBI Technical Committee on Currency and Interest rate Derivatives and member of various other committees.

Shri. Prasad is a graduate in Economics from St. Stephens College, Delhi and Masters in Economics from Delhi School of Economics, Delhi. He also has Masters in Public Policy from National University of Singapore, Singapore and Columbia University, New York. He is also certified as Financial Risk Manager by the Global Association of Risk Professionals (GARP).

Dr HK Pradhan is Professor of Finance and Economics at XLRI, Xavier School of Management at Jamshedpur, where he also served as the member of the Board of Governors & Chaired the Doctoral Programme. He has over 35 years of experience in teaching, research and consulting in the field of financial economics. With a Master degree from the Utkal University, an M Phil & Ph.D. from the University of Pune at the Gokhale Institute of Politics and Economics, Dr Pradhan was a Fulbright Post-Doctoral Fellow at the Columbia University Business School, New York in 1999-2000. Dr Pradhan is presently an Independent Director of SBI-DFHI Mumbai, and The Yes Asset Management Trustee Company, Ltd, Mumbai. He also served as member of the RBI

Technical Advisory Committee (TAC) on Financial Markets, an Independent Director of the State Bank of India Mutual Fund, Director on the Board of Micro Credit Rating International Ltd and Member of the Index & Option Committee of NCDEX, Mumbai. He was the Pacific Regional Advisor for the Commonwealth Secretariat, London, while serving concurrently as the Resident Debt Advisor with the Ministry of Finance, Government of Fiji Islands. He served as debt advisor for several Commonwealth Countries, acted as expert for the United Nations in the Finance for Development(FfD) initiative, drafted the framework papers for the Doha meet of the UN-ESCAP, acted as consultant to the Asian Development Bank on Municipal Finance, and to Crown Agents London on debt management. His research interest includes asset pricing, risk management, debt markets, MSSME and microfinance, financial inclusion and digital finance, and financial literacy.

Prof. Neeraj Hatekar is working as a Professor and having more than 35 years of teaching experience at Mumbai School of Economics and Public Policy (MSEPP). He was the former director of MSEPP. His teaching and research interests includes Microeconomics, Basic Econometrics, Mathematical Economics, Growth, Development and Planning, Economic Development in Historical Perspective, Statistical Foundations of Econometrics, Machine Learning, Econometrics of Market Research and Analytics, Multiple Linear Regression and its Extension, Experimental Economics, Macroeconomics, Financial Economics.

Prof. Hatekar has conducted several training workshops for officers of the Reserve Bank of India, Ministry of Finance, GoI, corporate executives, college teachers and students on statistics, econometrics, data visualization and data driven decision making at the Department of Economic, University of Mumbai as well as at other academic and professional institutions across the country by invitation.

Prof. Hatekar has written a number of books. One of his popular book is “Principles of Econometrics (Using R)”. He has successfully guided 15 Ph.D. students so far. He is the Local supervisor for Ph.D students enrolled at the University of Amsterdam and doing field work in Mumbai on impact of offshore services. As a part of his Community Work, he is Associated with grass root organisations working among tribal and urban informal communities as a member of Board of trustees/ advisory capacity. Prof. Hatekar is a Founding Member Secretary, University of Mumbai Academic Staff Association.

Rajiv Shastri is a qualified Chartered Accountant and also holds a master’s degree in Economic Management & Policy from University of Strathclyde, Glasgow.

He has over 25 years of experience in roles that encompassed Fixed Income Fund Management. Macro – economic Analysis, Quantitative Investments and Business Strategy.

He was part of the start-up team at HDFC Mutual Fund and headed Fixed Income Investments there. Later, he was responsible for business strategy and driving growth at Lotus Mutual Fund. In his last engagement with the MF industry he was ED & CEO of Essel Mutual Fund.

He is Professor of Practice at the National institute of Securities Markets and a columnist with ETPrime, MoneyControl and Business Standard.

Mr. Sunil Kadam is the Registrar of National Institute of Securities Markets (NISM), an educational initiative of the Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI). Prior to taking over as Registrar of NISM, Mr. Kadam was Regional Director of Northern Regional Office of SEBI.

Mr. Kadam has joined SEBI in 1996 and during his tenure in SEBI he has worked in various departments in SEBI and handled the work relating to administration and inspection of Market Infrastructure Institutions (MIIs) and SEBI registered intermediaries, surveillance and investigations, corporation finance, forensic accounting, corporate governance, Business Responsibility Reports, Indian Depository Receipts (IDRs), E-voting, search and seizure, treasury and accounts, enquiry and adjudications, litigations, etc.

Mr. Kadam was also a member of SEBI Committee on Disclosures and Accounting Standards (SCODA) and Auditing & Assurance Standards Board of The Institute of Chartered Accountants of India (ICAI). He has also represented SEBI in Asian Roundtable on Corporate Governance meetings organized by the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) and was also part of OECD report on “Related Party Transactions and Minority Shareholder Protection”.

Mr. Kadam holds a degree of Master of Business Administration (MBA) from University of Pune.