Shri. Yashwantrao Shankarrao Thorat Patil
Independent Directors
Shri. Yashwantrao Shankarrao Thorat Patil, is retired Chairman of NABARD in November 2007, and was until recently the Executive Chairman of the Dry Land Farming Commission and Chairman of the Agriculture Universities Recruitment Board, Government of Maharashtra. He is a Fellow of Lincoln College, Oxford University and Visiting Professor at the universities of Zurich, Switzerland and Reading, UK. He was also a Director of Tata Chemicals Limited, Rallis India Limited, and others.
Shri. Yashwantrao Shankarrao Thorat Patil current appointments include: Adjunct Professor at Yashwantrao Chavan School of Rural Development, Shivaji University, Kolhapur; Member and Secretary General of Pravara Rural Education Society; Member of the Managing Council and Executive Committee of Rayat Shikshan Sanstha; and Director of Britannia Limited, and Bombay Burmah Trading Company Limited, among others.
Earlier, Shri. Yashwantrao Shankarrao Thorat Patil was involved with the Planning Commission, Government of India, during the 10th and 11th Five-Year Plans. He served as Dean of Liberal Arts at FLAME University, Pune, and was a member of the Board of the National Institute of Bank Management. He has also held the position of Chairman of the Indian Society of Agricultural Economics and was a member of the Senate and Academic Council at Shivaji University, Kolhapur.
Shri. Yashwantrao Shankarrao Thorat Patil is a university ranker who has received the prestigious Gopal Krishna Gokhale Award for being recognized as the best student of Political Science across all universities in Maharashtra. Furthermore, he holds a degree in Law, a doctorate in Economics, and a D.Lit.
Shri. Yashwantrao Shankarrao Thorat Patil began his career at the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) in 1972 and was appointed Executive Director in 2003. His primary contributions have been in policy support for agricultural finance, urban cooperative banks, and cooperative policy and credit. In 2004, he was appointed by the GOI as Managing