Kishori Udeshi

Independent Director

Mrs. Kishori Udeshi has an M.A. Degree in Economics from Bombay University. She moved on to a professional career in central banking and became the first woman to be appointed as Deputy Governor of the Reserve Bank of India. She was the first Executive Director of the RBI to be nominated on the Board of State Bank of India.

As Deputy Governor, one of her portfolios was the regulation and supervision of the banking and non-banking sector. She represented the RBI on the Core Principles Liaison Group and the Core Principles Working Group on Capital, of the Basle Committee on Banking Supervision, set up by the Bank for International Settlements, Switzerland.

As Deputy Governor she was on the Board of SEBI, NABARD, Exim Bank and was the Chairman of Bharatiya Reserve Bank Note Mudran (Pvt.) Ltd., Bangalore as also Chairman of the Deposit Insurance and Credit Guarantee Corporation .In 2006 the Reserve Bank of India appointed her as Chairman of The Banking Codes and Standards Board of India. She demitted this office in December 2011.

She is the nominee of the Government of Maharashtra on the Board of the Indian Red Cross Society, Mumbai. She has been appointed by the Government of India as a Member of the Financial Sector Legislative Reforms Commission chaired by Justice ShriKrishna.