Viral Acharya

Viral V. Acharya (born 1 March 1974) is an Indian economist who served as Deputy Governor of Reserve Bank of India (RBI) from 2017 to 2019. He is currently serving as the C.V. Starr Professor of Economics at New York University Stern School of Business. Previously he was also a member of the advisory council of the RBI Academy and was a member of the Academic Council of the National Institute of Securities Markets (NISM), Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI) since 2014.

Biography Education He went to Fellowship High School, Mumbai. Acharya was ranked fifth nationally in 1991 in the Joint Entrance Examination on the basis of which admissions are made to the Indian Institutes of Technology in India. He graduated from the Indian Institute of Technology Bombay in 1995 with a Bachelor of Technology degree in Computer Science and Engineering, receiving the President of India Gold Medal for attaining the highest grade point average in his batch. In his final year at IIT Bombay, he enrolled in an elective in international finance. He initially joined the PhD program in computer science at New York University, but after a year switched to the PhD program in finance at New York University Stern School of Business. He graduated in 2001, with his dissertation thesis titled Essays in Banking and Financial Institutions. Between 2007 and 2009, he was the Academic Director of the Coller Institute of Private Equity at the LBS. starting on 20 January 2017.

Awards Acharya is a recipient of the Alexandre Lamfalussy Senior Research Fellowship of the Bank for International Settlements for 2017, and the inaugural Banque de France and Toulouse School of Economics Junior Prize in Monetary Economics and Finance in 2011.