Aditya Narain is Deputy Director in the IMF's Monetary and Capital Markets Department (MCM) with oversight responsibilities for MCMs work on financial supervision and regulation and for its technical assistance function. He has contributed extensively to the international discussions on the development of financial sector supervisory policies, and represents MCM on the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision. He is also the Fund’s representative on the Board of Directors of the Toronto Centre and on the Governing Council of the FIRST initiative. He has led several FSAP missions, most recently to the United States and Canada; and has provided technical assistance to a wide range of the Fund’s member countries. Before joining the IMF, he was with the Reserve Bank of India's Department of Banking Supervision.