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Meet India's top women bankers

December 23, 2008

Usha Thorat, Shyamala Gopinath, RBI Deputy Governors

Kishori J Udeshi was Reserve Bank's first woman deputy governor when she took over in June 2003.

She was followed by Usha Thorat, who took over as Deputy Governor of the Reserve Bank of India in November 2005.

Thorat has been Executive Director of RBI since April 2004.

She is in charge of the department of currency management, deposit insurance and credit guarantee corporation, inspection department, premises department, rural planning and credit department and urban banks department.

Shyamala Gopinath has been RBI's deputy governor since September 21, 2004. She holds a Master's degree in commerce, and is a Certified Associate of the Indian Institute of Banking and Finance.

She joined the RBI as an officer in April 1972, and has worked in different capacities including Executive Director of the RBI from June 2003. She has also served for two years (2001–2003) on deputation to the International Monetary Fund.

Image: Shyamala Gopinath, Dy Governor of RBI. | Photograph, Courtesy: RBI

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