National Bank Staff College

Dr M S Rao, Chief General Manager has joined as Principal, NABARD Staff College on 16th February 2024. He is an alumni of IARI, New Delhi with Masters and Doctoral studies in the areas of Horticulture, BioTechnology, Post-Harvest Management and an MBA in Finance and Marketing from Utkal University, Bhubaneswar. He has over 3 decades of work experience in the areas of Project Finance, Micro Finance, Institutional Development, Micro Enterprise Development, Risk Management, Bank Supervision. He has Consultancy experience in the areas of Policy Advocacy on Value Chain Development, Tribal Development, Infrastructure financing, Natural Farming, Project Monitoring and Evaluation, etc. He has worked across different regions of the country viz., Orissa, Uttar Pradesh, Andhra Pradesh and headed Manipur and Jharkhand Regional Offices, prior to joining as Principal at NBSC. He was associated with merger of Cooperative Credit Institutions as Kerala Bank and initiated setting up of a NABARD Data Warehouse as CGM of DDMABI. He served as Director on the Board of Saptagiri Grameen Bank, Chittoor, Andhra Pradesh.