About Mumbai
Mumbai was named an alpha world city. It is also the wealthiest city in India, and has the highest GDP of any city in South, West or Central Asia.
Harun R. Khan is one of the four Deputy Governors of the Reserve Bank of India.
He is a Post Graduate from Utkal University, Bhubaneswar and has M.Phil degree
from the Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi and PG Diploma in Business
Management from NMIMS, Mumbai. He is a Certified Associate of the Indian
institute of Bankers (CAIIB). His current responsibilities include the
departments dealing with forex reserve management, foreign exchange, internal
debt management, development & regulation of government securities market,
payment and settlement system, internal inspection and security and government
& bank accounts. He is Reserve Bank’s representative on the Committee on the
Global Financial System (CGFS) of the Bank of International Settlement (BIS).
He had represented the Reserve Bank of India as the nominee director on the
boards of a number of banks / financial institutions. Currently he represents
the Reserve Bank of India on the boards of the National Bank for Agriculture
and Rural Development (NABARD) and the National Housing Bank (NHB). He was also
the Chairman of the Internal Group on Rural Credit and Microfinance (popularly
known as the Khan Committee). This Group had made important recommendations for
expanding banking outreach through the Business Facilitators & Business
Correspondents leveraging ICT in a big way for scaling up bank-led financial
inclusion in India.