Ms. Ratna Dharashree Vishwanathan is a committed and value driven development professional, who comes with an extensive experience of about 31 years across a wide range of diversified sectors such as strategy building, microfinance, project management, change management, Human Resource and Financial management. Belonging to the 1987 batch of the Indian Audit and Accounts Service (IA & AS), Ms. Ratna Vishwanathan has served various departments of the Government of India including Audit, Defense and Prasar Bharti during 1987-2008. She has been on the Board of Mudra Bank during 2015-18, and is Member of the RBI’s Financial Inclusion Advisory Committee and has been the Chairperson of the South Asian Microfinance Network. She has been the CEO of MFIN (Micro Finance Institutions Network) from Jan-2014 to Jan-2018. She has built a strong Self Regulating Organisation in line with the sector supervision mandate of the RBI and has brought in a strong sense of credibility for the sector. She was the CEO of the Sustainable India Finance Facility which is an entity set up in partnership between the United Nations Environment Programme and BNP Paribas to bring in private sector investment and capacity building into sectors such as sustainable agriculture, water conservation, renewables and forest protection. She has also served at very senior levels in well-known international NGOs such as Oxfam India and VSO India during 2008-2013. She holds Master’s Degree in English Literature from Lucknow University, and has Diploma in Environment and Third World Development from London School of Economics.