Viral V. Acharya serves as the C.V. Starr Professor of Economics in the Department of Finance at New York University Stern School of Business (NYU-Stern). He was a Deputy Governor at the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) from January 23, 2017, to July 23, 2019, overseeing Monetary Policy, Financial Markets, Financial Stability and Research. Viral holds prestigious research and editorial positions at well-known institutions. He has also worked with Federal Reserve Banks in the US, the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank. Viral earned a Bachelor of Technology in Computer Science and Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Mumbai, in 1995, and a Ph.D. in Finance from NYU-Stern in 2001.