(Former) Executive Director, Group GC
SEBI, ICICI Bank
India
Pramod is an Executive Director at Securities & Exchange Board of India handling Corporation Finance Dept (CFD), Dept of Debt & Hybrid Securities (DDHS) and Inter-regulatory Interface group of Dept of Economic & Policy Analysis (DEPA).
He is a member of IFSC Authority (www.IFSCA.gov.in), National Financial Reporting Authority (www.NFRA.gov.in), Inter-Regulatory Technical Group (IRTG) & Early Warning Group (EWG) (constituted by Sub-Committee of Financial Stability & Development Council), a member of Board of Governors of IICA (www.IICA.nic.in), a member of Committee on Issuer Accounting, Audit & Disclosure of IOSCO (www.IOSCO.org) & Member Advisory Council of the IFRS Foundation (www.ifrs.org)
At SEBI, he has previously handled Enquiries & Adjudication Dept & Quasi-Judicial Cell (EAD & QJC), Enforcement Dept (EFD) & DEPA & was a quasi-judicial authority and a member of Assessment Committee of IOSCO.
Pramod has extensive experience in Indian financial services sector, having served as Group General Counsel at ICICI group, General Counsel for Citi South Asia cluster, partner at IndusLaw & as General Counsel of ICICI Bank. He also served as a member of Board of Directors of various ICICI group companies & as a member of National Committee for Regulatory Affairs of CII, of Advisory Council of Sahamati & of SEBI Subcommittee for Regulatory Sandbox.
Pramod had co-founded a LawTech startup & served as a Board member of 2 startups. He advised & mentored startups with ICICI Bank’s Startup Engagement Team & its Innovation Lab, NSRCEL – IIM Bangalore, SINE – IIT Bombay & of No Changemaker Left Behind program by Agami. He has led adoption of technology-led solutions for various business, operational & legal requirements. He has collaborated on iSPIRT projects including Sahay-GeM & Sahamati AA Ecosystem.
He has played a pivotal role in conceptualising & adoption of online dispute resolution (ODR) at ICICI Bank & digital ecosystems such as Sahamati, Sahay GeM, Sahay GST & ONDC. He engaged with policy makers & judiciary on ODR, which culminated in Niti Aayog committee report on Designing the Future of Dispute Resolution: The ODR Policy Plan for India.
Pramod has been associated with IDIA – Increasing Diversity by Increasing Access (www.IDIAlaw.org). He has served as a founding member of Governing Board of NLSIU Alumni Association from 2015-2020.
He has participated in & contributed to various law & regulatory reform & written or contributed to several papers on matters of law & policy for SCC Blog, IndiaCorplaw Blog, ARIA & for business news platforms.