Union Bank of India announced that the Central Government, vide notification no. eF. No.

6/2(v)/2022-BO. I dated May 13, 2026, appointed Dr. Debasish Prusty, Additional Secretary, Government of India, Ministry of Finance, Department of Financial Services, as the Government Nominee Director of the Bank with immediate effect and until further orders, vice Shri Rohan Chand Thakur. Dr. Debasish Prusty is a member of the Indian Administrative Service and now serving as the Additional Secretary in the Department of Financial Services in the Union Ministry of Finance in the Government of India.

He has more than 26 years of experience in the designing and implementing policies in the realm of Public Finance, Sustainable Development, and Development Cooperation and Environmental and Urban Governance. He had contributed to India's initiative for collaboration and partnership with various countries to launch the International Solar Alliance (ISA) platform in the year 2015 when he was the Director in the Climate Change division of the Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change in Government of India. In the international negotiations in the conference of parties held under the United Nations Conference on Climate Change (UNFCCC) he had represented India?s negotiating team.

He was a member of the standing committee on Finance of the UNFCCC in 2016. He has been conferred the Doctor of Philosophy from the Management Department of the Manipal University Jaipur and the Master of Philosophy in Environmental Sciences from the Jawaharlal Nehru University, Delhi, India. Dr. Prusty is well trained from the International Monetary Fund (IMF) in the field of Finance for Macro-economists.

Effective date of appointment is May 13, 2026.