Mr. S .K. Dora, General Manager has been appointed as Vice Principal at NBSC since 01.05.2019. He is a Post Graduate in Economics from Sambalpur University, Odisha & holds M.Phil. Degree in Environmental Economics from Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU), New Delhi. His areas of specialization include farm sector policy including agri-risk mitigation, infrastructure finance, climate finance, environment and social risk management, farmer’s collectives, and rural bank supervision, etc. In NABARD, Mr. Dora has worked in various capacities in the last 30 years in Mumbai, HO and in ROs in Gujarat, Odisha including four years as Faculty Member in the Bankers Institute of Rural Development (BIRD), Lucknow. He has served as a member of the Governing Council of Agriculture Skill Council of India (ASCI). He was a member of the FICCI Task Force on Climate Change and also represented NABARD in the Task Force on demonstrating doubling farmer’s income constituted by NITI Aayog, GOI. Besides conducting and attending large number of national and international training programmes, seminars and workshops, he also led a team of senior bankers and government officials to study the cooperative banking system in Germany.