Mr. N S
Viswanathan
Shri N.S. Vishwanathan, a career Central Banker, joined the Reserve Bank of India in 1981. His areas of expertise include Regulation and Supervision of Banks, Non-Banking Finance Companies and Cooperative banks; Currency management; Foreign Exchange and Human Resources Management. He had a three-year secondment to Central Bank of Mauritius as Director, Supervision. He has also been the head of Chennai Regional office of the Reserve Bank. Shri Vishwanathan was Reserve Bank nominee on the Board of Directors of three Public Sector Banks at different points in time. He was also CVO and Head of Internal Audit Industrial Finance Corporation of India (IFCI). He has been associated with various committees, working Groups, and task forces. He represented RBI in various international Committees – Member of the Financial Stability Board, Member of Basel Committee on Banking Supervision, Member of Policy Development Group, BIS, Basel, and Executive Committee Member of the International Cooperative and Credit Regulators’ Network.