David Rasquinha
Deputy Managing Director
Export-Import Bank Of India, India

David Rasquinha [53], Deputy Managing Director, Export-Import Bank of India, holds business responsibility for the Bank’s Project Exports, Trade Finance, Lines of Credit, Treasury & Accounts, MIS and Risk Management groups. David joined Exim Bank in 1985 and since then has had a wide ranging exposure to the broad fields of Export Credit, Structured Finance, Project Exports, Risk Management, Resources and Treasury. He was a member of an Exim Bank team that conducted a feasibility study for setting up an export credit agency for the Gulf Co-operation Council countries. He has also served as a member on several Working Groups set up by the Reserve Bank of India on issues of relevance to exports and export credit. From 1999 – 2004, he served as Resident Representative at the Bank’s Washington DC Representative Office. David secured a first class graduate degree in Economics from the Bombay University and followed it up with a post graduate qualification in Business Management from the XLRI, Jamshedpur where he was awarded the Gold Medal in Economics. He has benefited from a number of specialised training programmes both in India and abroad. David has lectured on various aspects of export financing at the National Institute of Bank Management, the Reserve Bank of India’s Bankers Training College, the Jawaharlal Nehru Institute for Development Banking, as well as various bank training colleges, academic institutions and industry bodies in India and the U.S.A. He is a Member of the National Jury for the CII – Exim Award for Business Excellence, a Total Quality Management Award based on the TQM model of the European Foundation for Quality Management.