Dr. (Mr.) Harsh Kumar Bhanwala

Dr. (Mr.) Harsh Kumar Bhanwala is an Independent Director on the Board of the Bank.

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 Limited (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 has a vast experience of more than 38 years in areas such as Board governance & management, Finance, Rural development, promoting & supporting sustainable agriculture, and supervision & development of Rural Cooperative Banks.

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

Pacific Rural and Agricultural Credit Association (APRACA).

He 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.