Dr. (Mr.) Harsh Kumar Bhanwala

Dr. (Mr.) Harsh Kumar Bhanwala, aged sixty-four (64) years, has a vast experience of 40 years in areas such as Board governance & management, Finance, Rural development, promoting & supporting sustainable agriculture, and supervision & development of Rural Cooperative Banks and Regional Rural Banks. He is well-experienced in the Impact Finance space and Development in Human Resource (HRD) in large organization.

Dr. (Mr.) Bhanwala earned a B.Sc. in Dairy Technology from National Dairy Research Institute (NDRI), Karnal. He is a Postgraduate in Management from IIM, Ahmedabad and holds a Ph.D. in Management. He has been awarded an honorary doctorate in Science by Tamil Nadu Agricultural University, Coimbatore, and the Indian Council of Agricultural Research-Central Institute of Fisheries Education, Mumbai and ICAR- National Dairy Research Institute, Karnal.

He was the Chairman of the National Bank for Agriculture and Rural Development (NABARD), the Apex Development Bank of the Country from December 18, 2013 to May 27, 2020. He has been the Executive Director and later Chairman cum Managing Director of India Infrastructure Finance Company Ltd. (IIFCL). He has also been the Managing Director of the Delhi State Cooperative Bank. Recently, he also served as the Executive Chairman of a listed NBFC (Capital India Finance Limited). He is also a director of Microfinance Industry Network (Association of NBFC- MFIs). He served as a Chairman of Banker’s Institute of Rural Development (BIRD), Lucknow and NABARD Consultancy Services (NABCONS).

Dr. (Mr.) Bhanwala headed the Technical Group appointed by SEBI on the Social Stock Exchange (September 2020). He was a member of the Expert Committee on the Primary (Urban) Cooperative Banks of the RBI constituted after the amendment in the Banking Regulation Act, 1949. He has expertise in Rural Banking in India.

He has Board level experience with Deposit Insurance & Credit Guarantee Corporation (DICGC), Institute of Rural Management Anand (IRMA), National Institute of Bank Management (NIBM), National Cooperative Development Corporation (NCDC) and as an Independent Director on the boards of Bayer Crop Science Limited and Arya Collateral Warehousing Services Private Limited. He has served as Vice Chairman of the Asia-Pacific Rural and Agricultural Credit Association (APRACA).

Dr. (Mr.) Bhanwala is a public interest director and chairman on the Board of The Multi Commodity Exchange of India Limited and is also a director of Microfinance Industry Network (Association of NBFC – MFIs). 

Dr. (Mr.) Bhanwala does not hold full-time position in any other company or body corporate