Raghuram Rajan — CEO
Raghuram Rajan is the Katherine Dusak Miller Distinguished Service Professor of Finance at Chicago Booth. He was the 23rd Governor of the Reserve Bank of India between September 2013 and September 2016. Between 2003 and 2006, Dr. Rajan was the Chief Economist and Director of Research at the International Monetary Fund. Dr. Rajan’s research interests are in banking, corporate finance, and economic development, especially the role finance plays in it. The books he has written include The Third Pillar: How the State and Markets are leaving Communities Behind forthcoming, 2019, I do What I do: On Reform, Rhetoric, and Resolve, 2017, and Fault Lines: How Hidden Fractures Still Threaten the World Economy, for which he was awarded the Financial Times-Goldman Sachs prize for best business book in 2010. Dr. Rajan is a member of the Group of Thirty. He was the President of the American Finance Association in 2011 and is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. In January 2003, the American Finance Association awarded Dr. Rajan the inaugural Fischer Black Prize for the best finance researcher under the age of 40. The other awards he has received include the Infosys prize for the Economic Sciences in 2012, the Deutsche Bank Prize for Financial Economics in 2013, Euromoney Central Banker Governor of the Year 2014, and Banker Magazine (FT Group) Central Bank Governor of the Year 2016.
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Location: Chicago, Illinois, United States
Experience: 7 yrs
Career Highlights
- Former Governor of the Reserve Bank of India.
- Awarded Financial Times-Goldman Sachs prize for best business book.
- Distinguished Professor at Chicago Booth School of Business.
Work Experience
The University of Chicago Booth School of Business
Katherine Dusak Miller Distinguished Service Professor of Finance
Reserve Bank of India (RBI)
Governor (3 yrs)
Government of India
Chief Economic Advisor to the Finance Ministry (1 yr)
International Monetary Fund
Chief Economist (3 yrs)
Education
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD at Massachusetts Institute of Technology - Sloan School of Management
Master of Business Administration - MBA at Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad
Bachelor of Technology - BTech at Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi