Speaker Bio

• Dr. Alok Pande is a Senior Civil Servant specializing in the world of Finance. An officer of the 1994 batch, he is currently working as Additional Secretary to Government of India in the Department of Investment and Public Asset Management (DIPAM), Ministry of Finance. He has earlier worked as Joint Secretary, DIPAM (2019-23), and Director, DFS (2011-16), in the Ministry of Finance.
• Dr. Pande did his Bachelors in Engineering (Mechanical) from NIT Allahabad where he was a Gold medallist and his FPM(Doctorate) from IIM Bangalore in the area of Capital Markets. His FPM thesis was awarded the NSE Award for “Best Thesis in Financial Economics’. He also won the Marie Curie Fellowship to visit Manchester Business School (UK) as a part of his Doctorate.
• As Additional Secretary, Dr. Pande has been the Administrator of Specified Undertaking of UTI – as entity established by the Parliament. He is also the Chief Vigilance Officer of DIPAM. Recently he was instrumental in successfully executing the country’s largest OFS of LIC worth more than 3.3 billion USD.
• As Joint Secretary, he handled the prestigious IPO of Life Insurance Corporation of India in May 2022 which was India’s largest IPO at that time. In 2020-21, amidst Covid times, he was instrumental in the listing of 3 companies-Mazagon Dock Limited, IRFC and RAILTEL.
• With an experience of more than 30 years, Dr. Pande has handled various positions in the Government of India. Before moving to the Ministry of Finance, he was handling the IT project of Department of Posts as Deputy Director General of the Project Monitoring Unit (PMU). This IT Project has enabled digitisation to reach more than 128000 villages in the country.
• Prior to that, he was instrumental in the launch and execution of the Pradhan Mantri Jan Dhan Yojana (PMJDY) as Director in the Department of Financial Services of the Ministry of Finance. The Jan Dhan Aadhar Mobile (JAM) Trinity today has transformed not only the payments landscape but also that of Direct Benefit Transfers and stands out in the world as a fine example of the Digital Public Infrastructure (DPI).
• Board-level experience
          Indian Overseas Bank          2011-16
          Indian Bank                            2024-26
          Administrator, SUUTI            2024-25
          ITC Ltd.                                    2024-26
• Dr Pande has published in two of the prestigious Journals in the world of Finance-Journal of Corporate Finance and Journal of Financial Markets.