G Sreekumar

G. Sreekumar has a PhD from IIT Madras. Introduced to central banking in 1978, through an undergraduate elective on banking systems, he has been a lifelong student of central banking, central banks, and central bankers. Starting his career in the currency vaults of the Reserve Bank of India,he worked mostly in banking regulation and supervision, apart from rural credit, and core central bank functions of currency management, and banker to government. He also trained central bankers from India and abroad. Heworked for around 30 committees,involved in drafting many reports, including the Banking Ombudsman Scheme. He was a Visiting Fellow at the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision, Switzerland, and was associated with a peer review of Italy for the Financial Stability Board.He addressed various global forums, on governance, operational risk, and money laundering. He served on the boards of private and public sector banks. Sreekumar is fortunate to have worked with, among others, R. Janakiraman, S.S. Tarapore, Y.V. Reddy, and M.S. Verma, among the tallest,in chronological order, to have walked through the portals of the Reserve Bank. After voluntary retirement, Sreekumar continues to train central bankers as a banking supervision advisor at the International Monetary Fund. Apart from trying to learn the piano, Sreekumar writes on whatever interests him, mostly on central banks and central bankers, the world around them, their issues and challenges.