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Chairman's Biography

Dr Amarendra Sahoo, Distinguished Professor of Management based at Pune and Chairman, Grameen Pragati Foundation, a Section 25 company, had beenChairman Atom Technologies Ltd, Mumbai for over 4 years. He has been Belpay India Managing Director, headquartered at Brussels dealing with Business-to-Business Payments and comprehensive solutions to risk management. and Vice President Cambridge Global Partners, an international strategy and business consultancy on risk management. He was formerly a consultant with HCL Infosystem, World Bank, Washington DC, and visiting Professor, City University of New York.

Dr Sahoo was a veteran central banker with over three decades experience in public policy in India and abroad. He was Chief General Manager, Rural Planning and Credit Department, Mumbai and Regional Director at Guwahati and Lucknow of Reserve Bank of India (RBI), Dean Academics and Professor Finance, IMT Ghaziabad, Secretary General Apparel Export Promotion Council, Gurgaon.

Dr. Sahoo holds a Ph. D. in Economics from IIT, Masters from Jawaharlal Nehru University, NewDelhi and Stanford School of Public Policy, Duke University, USA (as RBIGolden Jubilee Scholar).Dr Sahoo specializes in BankTech, EmergeTech and Financial markets and mentor students of IIT, Gokhale Institute of Politics and Economics, Flame University, Symbiosis School of Economics etc in India and overseas. Currently, he is Independent Director on the Boards of Kanakadurga Finance Ltd and Maa Harsiddhi Infra Developer pvt Ltd.