A career central banker and a Member of the Markets Committee of Bank for International Settlements, Basel, Switzerland, Mr. Sharma retired as Executive Director, Reserve Bank of India (RBI), on 31st December, 2012. As Executive Director, Mr. Sharma was responsible for 11 mission critical and sensitive Departments covering such diverse areas as Financial Markets, Foreign Exchange Reserves Management, Internal Debt Management, Human Resources, Administration, Currency Management, Rural Planning and Credit, Financial Inclusion, Customer Service, Premises and Regulation and Supervision of Urban Co-operative Banks. A B.Sc. in Physics, Pure and Applied Mathematics and an M.Sc. in Physics, he holds an Advanced Studies Certificate in International Economic Policy Research from Kiel Institute of World Economics, Kiel, Germany and is recipient of the prestigious Lord Aldington Banking Research Fellowship and the first RBI Golden Jubilee scholarship for pursuing research and advanced studies abroad, He has had excellent and versatile performance track-record with strong action, outcome, result and delivery orientation in policy making and execution. Mr. Sharma has formidable credentials in Financial and Derivatives Analytics and Risk Diagnostics & Risk Management Solutions . Several of his speeches and articles ,including one on Eurozone crisis, delivered at European Parliament in Brussels, have been published in prestigious journals like London's Central Banking and Bank for International Settlements, Switzerland (BIS) Reviews and one on derivatives was covered by London 's The Economist . After retirement , Mr Sharma addressed Boards of Directors of a few Public Sector Banks on Risk Management as part of a Consultancy's Board Academy Program . He has served as Chairman/Member/Director of several important Committees/ Working Groups/Governing Boards/Councils/Bank Boards and represented RBI in various prestigious national and International fora . http://vksharmablog.blogspot.com/​-x-x-x-x-x-x-