Wednesday, Oct 15, 2025 | 10:00 AM - 10:30 AM
Location: Cedar Hall HQ1-1-660
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OVERVIEW
The Asia and Pacific Department Director, Mr. Krishna Srinivasan, will host a Q&A session with the Governor of the Reserve Bank of India, Mr. Sanjay Malhotra, to discuss the emerging challenges in the areas of monetary policy and the financial sector faced by emerging markets (EMs) as well as policy options to address them.
SPEAKER
Sanjay Malhotra
Governor of the Reserve Bank of India
Mr. Sanjay Malhotra, an Indian Administrative Service Officer of 1990 Batch Rajasthan Cadre, took over charge as the 26th Governor of the Reserve Bank of India for a period of three years effective December 11, 2024. Immediately prior to this appointment, Mr. Malhotra was Secretary, Department of Revenue (DOR) in the Ministry of Finance, Government of India, before which Mr. Malhotra held the post of Secretary in Department of Financial Services in the Ministry of Finance, Government of India.
Mr. Malhotra has vast and diverse experience across various key sectors including power, finance and taxation, information technology, etc. and has held key positions both at the State and the Central Government, apart from having a stint with a United Nations agency. He was also Chairman and Managing Director of Rural Electrification Corporation Limited. Mr. Malhotra served on the Central Board of Reserve Bank of India as a Government Nominee Director from February 16, 2022 to November 14, 2022.
Mr. Malhotra is a graduate in Computer Science and Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur and a Master in Public Policy from the Princeton University, USA.
MODERATOR
Krishna Srinivasan
Director of the Asia and Pacific Department, IMF
Krishna Srinivasan is the Director of the Asia and Pacific Department (APD). In this capacity, he will oversee the institution’s work on all countries in the Asia-Pacific region. He was previously a Deputy Director in APD, overseeing the work on several systemically important countries, including China and Korea. Prior to that, Krishna was a Deputy Director in the Western Hemisphere Department (WHD), where he oversaw the institution’s work on several countries in the Americas, including Brazil, Canada, Mexico, Peru, Ecuador and the island economies of the Caribbean, the department’s research activities, and its flagship product, Regional Economic Outlook (REO) for Latin America and the Caribbean. He is a co-editor of two recent books: Brazil—Boom, Bust and the Road to Recovery; and Unleashing Growth and Strengthening Resilience in the Caribbean. Before joining WHD, Krishna was the IMF’s mission chief for the United Kingdom and Israel, when he was a staff member of the European Department, and before that in the Research Department, where he led the IMF’s work on the G-20 in the context of the global financial crisis. In the context of this work, he and was the editor of an IMF book Global Rebalancing: A Roadmap for Economic Recovery. Krishna has been with the IMF since 1994 and has served in several departments across the institution. He secured his PhD in International Finance from Indiana University and a Master’s from the Delhi School of Economics, India, and has published several papers both at the IMF and in leading academic journals.
