Executive Director, Sa-Dhan

Dr. P. Satish is the Executive Director of Sa-Dhan since March 2015. He was the Chief General Manager at NABARD heading the Micro Credit Innovations Department. Previously, he had also worked as a Faculty Member at Bankers’ Institute of Rural Development (BIRD). He is a member of RBI’s Financial Inclusion Advisory Committee and a member of Governing Council of Bankers’ Institute of Rural Development (BIRD), Lucknow. He is on the SHG-Bank Linkage Programme Strategic Advisory Board of NABARD and the Steering Committee of PM SVANidhi Scheme of Government of India. He has served as a Board Member of MUDRA, India Post Payments Bank, IRDAI’s Insurance Advisory Council and Multi Commodity Exchange. Dr P Satish holds a PhD in Economics from Punjab University and has pursued MBA in Finance from Osmania University and Master’s in Economics from University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA. He has been trained in Project Appraisal and Risk Analysis at Harvard University, Management of Human Resources at Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane and in Strategic Leadership in Financial Inclusion at Harvard Business School. He has published more than eighty research papers and articles in national and international journals and authored/co-authored six books/working papers and chapters in eight books in the fields of agricultural, rural finance and microfinance.