Mr. HK Pradhan

Dr HK Pradhan has been Professor of Finance and Economics at XLRI Jamshedpur, where he also served as the member of the Board and Chaired the Doctoral Programme. He has over 35 years of experience in teaching, research and consulting in the field of finance and economics. He has a Master in Economics from Utkal University, an M Phil & Ph.D. from the University of Pune, and a Fulbright Post-Doctoral Fellow at the Columbia University Business School, New York. Dr Pradhan has served as a member of the RBI Technical Advisory Committee (TAC) on Financial Markets, an Independent Director of the State Bank of India Mutual Fund and SBIDFHI, Mumbai, Board of Micro Credit Rating International Ltd(MCril), the Indian Commodity Exchange(ICEX), and a member of the Index & Option Committee of the National Commodity and Derivative Exchange (NCDEX), Mumbai. He has extensive short term academic visits to several overseas institutions, such as Columbia University Business School, University of Bonn, the Institute for Mathematics and its Applications (IMA) of the University of Minnesota. Dr Pradhan has worked as the Pacific Regional Advisor for the Commonwealth Secretariat, London, while serving concurrently as the Resident Debt Advisor with the Ministry of Finance, Government of Fiji Islands, during 2005-07. Extensively advised government debt management programs in Commonwealth Developing countries, served as an expert on several occasions for the United Nations Economic Commission for Asia and Pacific(UNESCAP) for the Finance for Development(FfD) initiative, and undertaken capacity building programmes in several Asian and African countries on debt management. Some of his interest areas include researching in Indian financial market, asset management industry, asset pricing, risk management, interest rate and debt markets, and SME and microfinance, and currency markets.

Mr. Rajendra Kumar Saini

Experienced Head of Treasury with a demonstrated history of working in the banking industry. Well versed with Forex Trading, Government Bond Trading, Money Market Instruments Trading like CD and CP, Equity Trading, portfolio built-up and improvement in the yield on investments. Skilled in Financial Risk, Corporate Finance, Banking, Investment Banking, and Credit.