He was appointed to this position by the Government of India (GoI), and assumed the charge of the bank as its CMD on 17 May 2006.
[2] He is an economist, and he has worked as a lecturer in Delhi University in early 1970s.
He was also associated with a number of committees of that bank for formulating policies and guidelines.
For some time, he was also a member of the Core group of the Energy Efficient Project of the World Bank.
In 2003, he had been a member of an international Seminar of the bankers and financial institutions at Singapore.