The government has appointed Ananth Narayan Gopalakrishnan, an associate professor at SP Jain Institute of Management & Research, as a whole-time member of the Securities and Exchange Board of India (Sebi).
The appointment is for a period of three years from the date Narayan assumes charge or until further orders, whichever is earlier, the Department of Personnel and Training said in a note.
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Narayan also serves as an independent director at SBI Capital Markets, Bharat FIH and Southern Ridges Capital. He has also served as an additional director at Yes Bank.
He has also served on various regulatory committees such as Sebi’s Mutual Fund Advisory Committee, FICCI’s Capital Markets Committee, NSE Clearing’s Risk Management Committee, and Kerala Infrastructure Fund Management’s Investment Committee.
Narayan has more than two decades of experience in banking and financial markets, with stints at Citibank, Deutsche Bank, and Standard Chartered Bank. Till December 2017, he was managing director & regional head of financial markets, ASEAN & South Asia with Standard Chartered Bank.
The other three WTMs include SK Mohanty, Ananta Barua and Ashwani Bhatia.
