Rupnarayan Bose was with the State Bank of India for the major part of his professional career. Later, he served as the Managing Director of Fina Bank Ltd., Nairobi (Kenya) and also of TransAfrica Bank Ltd., Kampala (Uganda), before returning to India to pursue his interests in academics.
Presently, his areas of interest are inn Trade Finance, export-import trade rules and procedure, the rules of the International Chamber of Commerce (ICC), Paris. He has authored several books on international trade, two of his latest recent ones being, “Letters of credit: Theory and practice” and “Beyond Trade Finance”. Both have received worldwide acclaim. A large number of his articles on international trade and other topics have been published in reputed journals in India and abroad. He delivers lectures on settlement risk management, documentary credits, the Incoterms rules, guarantees, exchange risk management etc. at various forums in India and overseas.
He is a visiting faculty at the Indian Institute of Foreign Trade, and is a member of the Board of Studies at NSOU, Govt. of W.B. He is fully engaged in his passions for writing, sharing his knowledge of trade finance as a faculty and trainer, and in travelling.
