Viral Acharya, Former Deputy Governor RBI & NYU, Stern

Viral Acharya was deputy governor of Reserve Bank of India from January 2017 to July 2019 and served as a member of the advisory council of the RBI Academy. He was also a member of the academic council of the National Institute of Securities market (NISM) and security and exchange board of India (SEBI). He worked as academic director of the coller institute of private equity at the London Business School from 2001 to 2008. Viral Acharya graduated from Indian Institute of Technology, India and has a PhD from New York University in Finance and Computer Science. Viral Acharya is recipient of the Alexandre Lamfalussy Senior Research Fellowship and Toulouse School of Economics Junior Prize in Monetary Economics and Finance in 2011.