Shaji KV has been elevated to the post of Chairman, National Bank for Agriculture and Rural Development (NABARD). Prior to this, he was serving as Deputy Managing Director, NABARD, since 21 May, 2020, and was instrumental in implementing initiatives like software-based supervisory inspection, data warehouse, process re-engineering and improvement in the risk management practices besides conceptualising the ambitious scheme of computerising primary agriculture cooperative societies (PACS).
Before joining NABARD, he worked at Canara Bank in various capacities for 26 years. As his last assignment, he was at the corporate office of Canara Bank, in charge of strategy, planning and business development during which he successfully handled the project of amalgamation of Syndicate Bank into Canara Bank.
Shaji has been a member of many national-level expert committees/working groups including the working group on agriculture value chain finance, expert committee to suggest the future roadmap for RRBs, technical group on social stock exchange, and others.
