Bio
Michael Debabrata Patra is a career central banker with close to 30 years of experience in various positions in the Reserve Bank of India, India’s central bank, which he joined in 1985. He is currently adviser-in-charge of the Monetary Policy Department of the Reserve Bank at its central office located in Mumbai, India, a position he also held from 2005 to 2008. He has a Ph.D. in economics from the Indian Institute of Technology, Mumbai, in the area of international finance.