Veena Mankar

Non-Executive Non-Independent Director

Veena Mankar is on the Board of the Bank since October 22, 2019.

Veena Mankar has over four decades of experience in banking & financial services and has been actively engaged in microbanking for over a decade. She started her career with ICICI Ltd. (the precursor to the Bank) and has worked with leading financial institutions including Emirates Bank in Dubai, West LB group, Germany and FimBank, Malta. She also served as an Independent Non - Executive Chairperson of IDFC First Bank Limited. She is the founder of two entities Swadhaar FinAccess (a non profit entity) and Swadhaar FinServe Pvt Limited, an MFI now RBL FinServe Ltd. (subsidiary of RBL Bank).

Currently, she is also on the Board of Artha-India Research Advisors Private Limited, Spice Money Limited, Digispice Technologies Limited, Swadhaar FinAccess, PB Fintech Limited, Paisabazaar Marketing and Consulting Private Limited and Microfinance Industry Network. She is also a member of the Self Regulatory Organization Committee (SROC) at MFIN.

Veena holds a Bachelors of Arts degree in Economics (H) and is also a post-graduate diploma in management from the Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad.