Annie George Mathew (born 21 October 1963) is a retired Indian bureaucrat, currently serving as a Director on the Central Board of the Reserve Bank of India (RBI).
She was an Indian Audit and Accounts Service (IA&AS) officer, and former Special Secretary, Department of Expenditure in the Ministry of Finance, Government of India. In 2023, she was appointed to the Sixteenth Finance Commission. Early life and education Mathew was born in Delhi, to a Malayali family from Kottayam, Kerala.
She completed her undergraduate education at Miranda House in 1984, receiving a Bachelor of Science with Honours in Botany. From 1984 to 1986, she pursued a postgraduate degree at the University of Delhi.
Career Mathew was an officer in the 1988 batch of the Indian Audit and Accounts Service (IA&AS) in the Government of India. She has 34 years of experience in public finance, financial management, government audit and accounts, along with public procurement including defence capital acquisitions and human resource management, and expertise on Union and State Finances.
She has been posted across India in Accountant General offices in Andhra Pradesh, Delhi, Madhya Pradesh, Orissa, and Uttar Pradesh, and to the Embassy of India in Washington D.C., United States of America .
She has led audit teams from the Government of India, working with international and multilateral organizations such as the United Nations and UNHCR in Europe, Africa and Asia, and member of International Standards laying Committees on Auditing.
From 2016 to 2021, she held the positions of Joint Secretary and later Additional Secretary in the Department of Expenditure in the Ministry of Finance. In 2021, she was empanelled for holding Secretary and Secretary equivalent posts in Government of India, and was appointed as Special Secretary Expenditure in the Ministry of Finance.
She was the government's nominee on the Boards of the Pension Fund Regulatory and Development Authority (PFRDA) and Indian Overseas Bank (IOB) from 2016 to 2023. She had previously served on the Board of State Bank of Hyderabad.
After retiring in 2023, she was appointed as a full-time member of the Sixteenth Finance Commission of India from January 1st 2024 to November 30th 2025. The report was presented to the President of India Droupadi Murmu in November 2025, mandated to cover a period of 5 years starting in April 1 2026. A copy of the report was also presented to the Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman.
In August 2026, she was appointed as part-time, non-official Director on the Central Board of the Reserve Bank of India for a four-year term.
See also
Sixteenth Finance Commission Reserve Bank of India
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