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Senior Fellow

NS Vishwanathan

Gopal Naik

Area: Senior Fellow, Public Policy

Chairperson, Centre for Public Policy

Emailgopaln@iimb.ac.in

Gopal Naik is Senior Fellow and Jal Jeevan Mission Chair Professor at the Centre for Public Policy, Indian Institute of Management Bangalore. After completing PhD in agricultural economics, University of Illinois he served as a faculty member at Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, India, during 1988–2003 and held many administrative positions including Chairperson, Centre for Management in Agriculture. He has worked as Professor of Economics at IIM Bangalore during 2003-23 and held many administrative positions such as Chairperson of Centre for Public Policy, Fellow Programme in Management and Dean Faculty. He taught graduate courses on research methodology, econometrics, and managerial economics. He works in the area agriculture policy, agribusiness, rural development, and natural resources management. He has published books and research papers in national and international refereed journals. He received Professional Excellence award in 2007 from The American Agricultural Economics Association. His co-authored paper was awarded the Title of Meritorious Paper for its contribution to the Practice of Electronic Governance in the 4th International Conference on the Theory and Practice of Electronic Governance. The team lead by him received the WSIS 2015 award for e-learning. He has been consultant for many public, private and international organizations and served on various committees of both Central and State Governments, and educational Institutions. Some of his recent publications are as follows.
  • Naik, G., Basavaraj K. P., Paidi, V. and Subramanian, A. Using geospatial technology to strengthen data systems in developing countries: The case of agricultural statistics in India, Applied Geography, 43(September 2013):99-112.
  • Naik, G. and Aswhini Baje. Post-Harvest Value Chain Management in India in Rural India Perspective 2017, Oxford University Press, 2018, pp 59-87.
  • Naik, G. and Suresh D. N. Challenges of Creating Sustainable Agri-retail Supply Chain, Roundtable, IIMB Management Review, 30(2018):270-282.
  • Naik, G. Chitre, C. Bhalla, M. and Jothsna R. Impact of technology use on student learning outcomes: Evidence from a large-scale experiment in India, accepted for publication in World Development, 127, March 2020, 104736.
  • Gopikuttan, G. S. and Naik, G. Atmanirbhar Bharat Abhiyan and Agriculture, Economic & Political Weekly, August 29, 2020:21-25.
  • Naik G., Narasinga Rao K.N., Baje A.  ICT Intervention Challenges in Education in Rural India. In: Fong S., Dey N., Joshi A. (eds) ICT Analysis and Applications. Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems, vol 93. Springer, Singapore. 2020. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-0630-7_18
  • Krishna, A. and Naik, G. Addressing Crisis in Indian Agriculture through Agricultural Information Delivery, IIMB Management Review, 32, 2020, 217-229.
  • Naik, G. Agricultural Trade with Special Reference to Plantation Crops and International Trade Agreements, Indian Journal of Agricultural Economics, 76(1), 2021, 109-143.
  • Dolli, S. S. and Gopal Naik. Impact of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) based extension System on Technology Adoption, Journal of Farm Science, Spl Issue, 34(5), 571-4, 2021.
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NS Vishwanathan

N.S. Vishwanathan

Area: Senior Fellow, Public Policy

Qualification: MA (Economics)

Emailnsv@iimb.ac.in

Mr NS Vishwanathan is a career central banker. He joined the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) in 1981 as a Direct Recruit Officer in Grade B, and retired as Deputy Governor in March 2020. During his nearly four decade service in RBI, he had exposures to core central banking and administrative functions. In this period he also worked in three external institutions – two domestic organisations and a foreign central bank. His areas of expertise include regulation and supervision of banking, non-Banking and cooperative banking entities and sector. As Deputy Governor, he handled banking, non-banking and cooperative banking regulation and supervision besides several other functions including internal governance, internal control and risk monitoring. He was Member of the Expert Committee on Economic Capital Framework for the Reserve Bank of India (Chairman: Dr Bimal Jalan, former Governor, Reserve Bank of India). Mr Vishwanathan is currently the Chairman of the Academic Advisory Council of the College of Supervisors of Reserve Bank of India

As Deputy Governor he represented RBI/India as the Member, Basel Committee on Banking Supervision (BCBS). Member, Financial Stability Board (FSB) and some of its sub committees, Member and later Co-chair of FSB Regional Consultative Group for Asia (RCG Asia). As Executive Director of RBI, he was Member of several Committees reporting to the BCBS and also the Member, Executive Committee of the International Cooperative Credit Union Regulators’ Network. Mr Vishwanathan was part of several domestic organisations, notably, non-executive Member of the Board of Directors, Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI), Member, Bank Board Bureau (BBB), and Member, Governing Council, Institute for Development and Research in Banking Technology (IDRBT). He was also Member / Chairman of several working groups, committees constituted by Government of India and Reserve Bank of India.

Research Interests:  Financial Sector Regulation, Supervision

Working Papers

Extensively referred speeches:

  1. Some Thoughts on Credit Risk and Bank Capital Regulation

  2. It is not Business as Usual for Lenders and Borrowers (April 18, 2018)

  3. Issues in Infrastructure Financing in India (November 2016)

  4. Asset Quality of Indian Banks: Way Forward (September 2016)

  5. Basel III Implementation- Challenges for Indian banking system (August 2015)