NSE board appointment: Former IFSCA chief Injeti Srinivas named Public Interest Director, Sebi nod awaited

The National Stock Exchange (NSE) has appointed Injeti Srinivas, former chairman of the International Financial Services Centres Authority (IFSCA), as a Public Interest Director on its board, the exchange disclosed on its website.Sources told PTI that Srinivas may also be in line for the post of NSE chairman, subject to approval from the Securities and Exchange Board of India (Sebi).A 1983-batch IAS officer of the Odisha cadre, Srinivas brings more than four decades of experience in corporate and financial regulation, industrial promotion, corporate and insolvency law, competition law, chartered accountancy, cost accountancy, company secretary laws, public policy and international cooperation.He has earlier served as Corporate Affairs Secretary and was the founding chairperson of IFSCA, where he played a key role in institutional reforms, governance enhancement and systemic policy innovation.Alongside Srinivas, the NSE board includes other Public Interest Directors such as Abhilasha Kumari, retired Chief Justice of the Manipur High Court and former judicial member of the Lokpal of India; Mamata Biswal, Professor of Law and ICSSR Senior Research Fellow at GNLU; S. Sudarshan, Professor at IIT Bombay; S. Ravindran, former Executive Director at Sebi; and Rajesh Gopinathan, former MD and CEO of Tata Consultancy Services.