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October 04, 2008

About Yerram Raju Behara

Dr. Yerram Raju Behara, presently Regional Director of PRMIA-Hyderabad Chapter is a banker turned economist with about three decades of experience in banking and a decade and half experience in academics and consulting. His banking experience is with the country's biggest public sector bank, State Bank of India. He is currently Member of the Standing Advisory Committee of the Reserve Bank of India on SME sector. His academic experience was as Professor of Economics with LBS National Academy of Administration, Mussorie, Dean of Studies with Administrative Staff College of India-Center for Excellence for Practicing Managers in Government, Public and Private Sector Corporates and Joint Director, Institute of Public Enterprise, Hyderabad. He is also a member of the Board of Governors of the Siva Sivani Institute of Management, Hyderabad. He was Adjunct Professor, Gitam Institute of Foreign Trade, Gitam University (Visakhapatnam) and Visiting Professor of Acharya Nagarjuna University, Guntur (Andhra Pradesh). He was Special Invitee Member of the Expert Group on Agricultural Indebtedness set up by the Union Ministry of Finance (2006) and Member of the Working Group on Capacity Building of Ports with the Union Ministry of Shipping, Road Transport and Highways (2008). He has authored over 500 articles in leading financial dailies in India and other financial journals of India and overseas. He has authored and co-authored eight books covering Agriculture, Banking, SMEs, Corporate Governance and Economic Planning.

His consulting experience has been in agricultural finance, corporate
restructuring, rural development, rural electrification, social and
economic forestry ( project evaluation) corporate governance, SME Law,
Planning, Financing and Development of SMEs and developing e-learning
packages in Agricultural Banking. Organizations included World Bank,
GTZ-India, DFID etc. He was Member of the Jury of the Asia Pacific
Bankers' Congress, Manila in 2005. He has addressed the first Global
Development Network at Bonn (1999), Asia Pacific SME Development Forum,
Kuala Lumpur (2003), Asia Pacific Bankers\' Congress (2004,05) on Credit Risk Management of SMEs, and participated in the Risk Conference (ISDA) 2006 at Geneva. His current interests are in Risk Management and Corporate Governance. His strength is providing multi-sectoral and multi-cultural perspective for any issue he comes across.

Posted by rajubehara at October 4, 2008 06:42 AM

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