Indrani Banerjee is the Additional Director responsible for the Learning activities at CAFRAL. Prior to joining CAFRAL, she was Executive Director, Reserve Bank of India where her responsibilities spanned the areas of financial market regulation, foreign exchange management, external investments & operations, and legal.

As a part of senior management, her experience encompassed banking regulation, supervision of commercial banks and foreign exchange reserves management. She has also worked in the Monetary Policy Department of the Bank.

While at RBI, she headed several important committees such as the Taskforce for Urban Cooperative Banks and Standing Committee on Currency Management. She had represented the Bank in domestic and international fora on matters including External Audit and Leadership Imperatives & participated in events such as the International Roundtable on the Basel Consultative Paper on Corporate Governance and the World Bank/IMF International Conference on Policy Challenges for the Financial Sector.

While on deputation as Member of Faculty to the National Institute of Bank Management (NIBM) in the area of Money, International Banking & Finance, she was actively involved in capacity building and also coordinated a course on International Banking & Foreign Exchange in the first Post Graduate (MBA) Program on Banking and Finance.

She had a short stint in the South Asia Department of the International Finance Corporation in Washington DC. She has been a nominee director on the Board of EXIM Bank and represented RBI as ex-officio member of the International Financial Services Centres Authority (IFSCA).

She is an alumna of Lady Shri Ram College, Delhi University and has an M.Phil degree in International Relations from JNU and a Masters in International Development Policy from the Sanford Institute of Public Policy, Duke University. She is a Certified Associate of the Indian Institute of Bankers. 

Jyoti Kumar Pandey is the Senior Program Director currently associated with the CAFRAL’s Learning activities. Prior to joining CAFRAL he held positions as Regional Director of Punjab, Haryana, Himachal Pradesh and UT Chandigarh, Chief General Manager of Mumbai Regional Office and Chief General Manager of  Foreign Exchange Department, Reserve Bank of India, Central Office. As a Senior central banker having more than thirty years of experience he is having in-depth domain knowledge in areas of cross border capital and current account transactions and FEMA; regulation and supervision of banks / cooperative banks/ NBFCs; supervision and operation of Payment Systems and IT Controls.  He has also been a Member of Faculty of RBI’s College of Agricultural Banking, Pune.

He has been a Member of the NITI Aayog Committee to Transform India’s Gold Market, the Committee on Gold Issues - a sub-committee of FSDC and also the Internal Task Force for review of Returns in Foreign Exchange Department of RBI.

He holds an MS in Information Systems from Robert H. Smith School of Business, University of Maryland, College Park, MD; an MBA from Pamplin College of Business, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA; and MSc. (Tech.) from Indian Institute of Technology, Dhanbad. He is a Certified Associate of the Indian Institute of Bankers.

C. Sankaranarayanan is the Senior Program Director currently associated with the CAFRAL’s Learning activities. Prior to joining CAFRAL he worked in State Bank for India for more than 35 years and has held a number of very important assignments in the Bank in India and abroad.He had worked as a faculty in State Bank Staff College, Hyderabad, SVP & Regional Head-SBICAPs Chennai, Country Head & CEO-SBI Maldives, CEO SBI Newyork, Director (FDI), Department of Economic Affairs, Ministry of Finance, GOI, New Delhi and General Manager, Circle Audit Office, Chennai. He is a Post Graduate in Economics and a Certified Associate of the Indian Institute of Bankers.