The National Payments Corporation of India (NPCI) has announced the appointment of Biswamohan Mahapatra as non-executive Chairman of the Board for a period of 2 years. He succeeds B. Sambamurthy, interim chairman. Mahapatra had been an ED at the Reserve Bank of India till August 2014. Subsequently he had been an independent director at Edelweiss Financial Services. He holds a Master of Science in Management (MSM) degree from the Arthur D. Little Management Education Institute, Cambridge, Massachusetts, and an MBA from University of Delhi and M.A. from Jawaharlal Nehru University.
