Revenue Secretary Sanjay Malhotra has been appointed Governor of the Reserve Bank of India (RBI).

• He will take charge from Wednesday( 11 December) for three years, the government said in a statement. Mr Malhotra is a 1990-batch Indian Administrative Service (IAS) officer from the Rajasthan cadre.
• He is a Computer Science graduate from the Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur, and has a Master's in Public Policy from Princeton University, US.
• In a career spanning over 33 years, Mr Malhotra has worked in several sectors including power, finance and taxation, information technology, mines etc.