Ananth Narayan Gopalakrishnan assumes charge as whole-time member at SEBI

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Former banker Ananth Narayan Gopalakrishnan took charge as the fourth whole time member (WTM) in the Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI) on 10 October.

Important facts

• Narayan, who was a member of various advisory committees of SEBI and RBI, has been appointed for the initial three years.

• Prior to taking over, Narayan was Associate Professor at the SP Jain Institute of Management and Research.

• He has over two and a half decades of experience in banking and financial markets, during which he held the position of Regional Head of Financial Markets for ASEAN and South Asia at Standard Chartered Bank.

• He has expertise in foreign exchange, interest rates, derivatives and debt capital markets.

• Narayan has also worked with Deutsche Bank and Citibank.

• Narayan has been given the Department of Market Intermediaries Regulation and Supervision (MIRSD), Department of Alternative Investment Funds and Foreign Portfolio Investors (AFD), Department of Integrated Monitoring (ISD), Department of Economic and Policy Analysis (DEPA) and Department of Information Technology (ITD) in SEBI.

Securities Exchange Board of India (SEBI) Chairperson - Madhabi Puri Buch