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Raghuram Rajan
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Indian economist and former governor of Reserve Bank of India
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Raghuram Govind Rajan is an Indian economist, banker, and university teacher born in Bhopal in 1963. He has served as the Governor of the Reserve Bank of India and as a chief economist. His professional affiliations include the Reserve Bank of India, the University of Chicago, and the MIT Sloan School of Management. He is also a member of the Group of Thirty and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
Rajan received his education from the Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, the Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He speaks English and follows Hinduism. His notable awards include the Infosys Prize and recognition as a Clarivate Citation Laureate. He is also a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. His work focuses on economics and the economics of banking.
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Key facts
- Prime minister
- Manmohan Singh , Narendra Modi
- Preceded by
- Duvvuri Subbarao
- Succeeded by
- Urjit Patel
- Born
- ( 1963-02-03 ) 3 February 1963 (age 63) , Bhopal , Madhya Pradesh , India
- Spouse
- Radhika Rajan
- Education
- Indian Institute of Technology Delhi ( BTech ), Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad ( PGDM ), Massachusetts Institute of Technology ( PhD )
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- India
- Place of birth
- Bhopal
- Occupation
- university teacher
- Position held
- chief economist
- Educated at
- MIT Sloan School of Management
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Religion
- Hinduism
- Field of work
- economics of banking
- Image
- Raghuram Rajan, IMF 69MS040421048l.jpg
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- Raghuram Rajan
- date of birth
- 1963-02-03
- name in native language
- Raghuram Rajan
- birth name
- Raghuram Govind Rajan
- member of
- Group of Thirty
- P10632
- Raghuram Rajan
- affiliation string
- University of Chicago Booth School of Business
- affiliation
- Reserve Bank of India
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Encyclopedic overview
Raghuram Govind Rajan (born 3 February 1963) is an Indian economist and the Katherine Dusak Miller Distinguished Service Professor of Finance at the University of Chicago's Booth School of Business. He served as the Chief Economist of the International Monetary Fund from 2003 to 2006 and the 23rd Governor of the Reserve Bank of India from 2013 to 2016. In 2015, during his tenure at the RBI, he became the Vice-Chairman of the Bank for International Settlements.
At the 2005 Federal Reserve annual Jackson Hole conference, three years before the 2008 financial crisis, Rajan warned about the growing risks in the financial system, that a financial crisis could be in the offing, and proposed policies that would reduce such risks. Former U.S. Treasury Secretary Lawrence Summers called the warnings "misguided" and Rajan himself a "luddite". However, after the 2008 financial crisis, Rajan's views came to be seen as prescient, and he was extensively interviewed for the Academy Awards-winning documentary Inside Job (2010).
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