Speeches & Media Interactions

Participants from the Reserve Bank of India: Shri Sanjay Malhotra - Governor, Reserve Bank of India Shri T. Rabi Sankar - Deputy Governor, Reserve Bank of India Shri Swaminathan J - Deputy Governor, Reserve Bank of India Dr. Poonam Gupta - Deputy Governor, Reserve Bank of India Shri Shirish Chandra Murmu - Deputy Governor, Reserve Bank of India Dr. Ajit Ratnakar Joshi - Executive Director, Reserve Bank of India Shri Sanjay Kumar Hansda - Executive Director, Reserve Bank of India Shri Indranil Bhattacharyya - Executive Director, Reserve Bank of India Moderator: Shri Brij Raj - Chief General Manager, Reserve Bank of India Brij Raj: Good afternoon, everyone. Welcome to this Post-Policy Press Conference, Sixth for the Financial Year 2025-26. We have with us, Governor, Reserve Bank of India - Shri Sanjay Malhotra along with Deputy Governors - Shri T. Rabi Sankar, Shri Swaminathan J, Dr. Poonam Gupta and Shri Shirish Chandra Murmu. We also have with us today, Executive Directors, Dr. Ajit Ratnakar Joshi, Shri Sanjay Kumar Hansda and Shri Indranil Bhattacharyya. I also welcome my other colleagues from the Reserve Bank.

Welcome to the 2023 Annual Meetings Governor Series Talk. I am Krishna Srinivasan, Director of the Asia Pacific Department of the International Monetary Fund. Today, I am honored and privileged to welcome Governor, Shaktikanta Das of the RBI. We will be talking about the frontiers of central banking in Asia.

Governor Das requires no introduction, but I will do my obligatory piece here. Governor Das took over the helm of the RBI in 2018 at a critical moment for both India and the world and since then, he has been guiding monetary policy and banking regulation in the world's fifth-largest economy. During the COVID-19 pandemic, he took bold and timely actions to mitigate the impact of the pandemic and to save lives and livelihoods. He is passionate about digital technology and fintech, both geared towards increasing access of the layman or a common person to finance and promote financial literacy.