Manas Ranjan Mohanty is the Additional Director at CAFRAL, leading Learning and Development initiatives. A career central banker, he has previously served as Managing Director of BRBNMPL and Chief General Manager of the Department of Currency Management, RBI. His core expertise spans strategy, currency management and printing, banking supervision, financial inclusion and education, agriculture finance, HR, and leadership development ,etc.

He has served on the Boards of SPMCIL and BNPMIPL and is currently on the Boards of a few NBFCs. He has also worked with the State Bank, National Insurance Co. Ltd., and the National Agricultural Research Programme. As MD of BRBNMPL, he championed CSR initiatives in tribal education, animal welfare, women’s health, and heritage conservation. He conceptualized and set up a pioneering Learning & Development Centre for the currency ecosystem at BRBNMPL, Mysuru, and played a key role in establishing the Currency Research and Development Centre at RBI.

Mr. Mohanty has been part of several RBI committees and Technical Advisory Groups. He has been a regular speaker and guest faculty at institutions such as NIBM, MANAGE, SYMBIOSIS, the Bangladesh Bank Training Academy,etc and has addressed national and international forums.

Outside his professional engagements, he is deeply committed to education for underprivileged children, serving as Chairman of Ek-Asha Trust and previously as founding President of Blossoms Education Society. He is passionate about mentoring and coaching of young talents , creative writing, environmental causes, animal protection etc. He  enjoys teaching schoolchildren whenever possible.

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.                                            

Shri Kamal P. Patnaik is a Senior Program Director at CAFRAL and he is currently involved in designing, directing and conducting risk-focused training programs for the senior bank executives. Prior to joining the CAFRAL, he was the Regional Director for Telangana at Hyderabad. He was also the Regional Director for J&K and Ladakh and also headed the RBI’s Kochi office. During his professional career spanning over three decades, transformative changes were brought about in the areas of banking supervision, payment systems, government-banking operations and digital financial inclusion. He also served as the RBI Nominee Director on the Board of a Public Sector Bank (2021-24) and helped in its turnaround.

As a former Member of Faculty (MoF) at the Bankers’ Training College (2005-08), he had conducted several off-site training programs in India and abroad in the areas of credit and market risk management. He was deputed to Central bank of Oman at Muscat and helped in successful implementation of Basel-II capital guidelines in Oman. As a Principal Inspecting Officer (PIO) to major Indian and foreign banks, he has vast experience in the areas of fraud, financial crimes and operational risks faced by Indian banks. His deep expertise as a bank-examiner as well as a bank-board director, helps him to dissect the dilemmas of corporate governance faced by the Indian financial institutions.

In his official capacity, he has travelled to several countries and participated in seminars and workshops conducted by Federal Reserve System (Washington DC), Federal Reserve Bank (New York); European Central Bank (Frankfurt); Banque de France (Paris) and IMF (Singapore). 

He holds a Post-Graduate degree in Political Science and International Relations. He is a Certified Associate of Indian Institute of Bankers and a Life Member of Indian Institute of Banking & Finance. He also holds an International Certification in Banking Risk and Regulation (ICBRR) from Global Association of Risk Professional (GARP), USA. 

He enjoys playing badminton and football during his free time.