Axis Bank Appoints Ananth Narayan G. As An Additional Independent Director

Axis Bank Limited appoints Ananth Narayan G. as an Additional Independent Director of the Bank for a term of four years from October 19, 2026, to October 18, 2030, subject to the approval of the shareholders.

Narayan, 57, is a former Whole-time Member of the Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI). As a Whole-time Member of SEBI from October 2022 to October 2025, he was involved in significant policy, enforcement, and adjudication matters across market infrastructure institutions, secondary markets, foreign portfolio investment, alternative investment funds, intermediaries, and corporate governance. Prior to this, he was an Associate Professor and head of Public Policy at Bhavan’s SPJIMR for over four years. He has served on the boards of several entities including SBI Capital Markets, Yes Bank (as an RBI appointee), Care Ratings, NSE Clearing, etc. Before that, he spent 25 years in global financial markets, trading foreign exchange, fixed income, commodities and derivatives. He led regional financial markets businesses for Standard Chartered, Deutsche Bank, and Citibank across South Asia and ASEAN. Currently, he is a Senior India Analyst, Observatory Group LLC, a Senior Visiting Fellow at the Isaac Center for Public Policy, Ashoka University and an Honorary Professor of Practice at the SJM School of Management, IIT Bombay.

He holds a postgraduate Diploma in Management from the Indian Institute of Management, Lucknow and received the Director’s Gold Medal. He graduated with a Bachelor of Technology (Electrical Engineering) from the Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay.