| Names |
RAGHURAM
Govind RAJAN |
| Date of
Birth |
February 03, 1963 |
| Identity |
23rd Governor of
the Reserve Bank of India |
|
Date-wise Events / Works |
- 2003: He won the Fischer
Black Prize awarded by the American Finance Association for
contributions to the theory and practice of finance by an
economist under age 40.
- 2003 to 2007: He was chief
economist at the International Monetary Fund.
- August 10, 2012: He was
appointed as chief economic adviser to India's Ministry of
Finance, succeeding Kaushik Basu.
- August 06, 2013: It was
announced that Rajan would take over as the next Reserve
Bank of India Governor for a term of 3 years, succeeding
Duvvuri Subbarao.
- September 05, 2013:
He took charge as Governor of Reserve Bank of India.
- September 26, 2013: He was
awarded the fifth Deutsche Bank Prize for Financial
Economics 2013 on this day for his "ground-breaking research
work which influenced financial and macro-economic policies
around the world".
- 2014: He was conferred the
Best Central Bank Governor award for 2014 by Euromoney
Magazine.
- November 09, 2015: He was
appointed as Vice-Chairman of the Bank for International
Settlements (BIS).
- June 18, 2016: He announced
that he will not be serving a second term as RBI Governor,
and plans to return to academia.
- September 04, 2016: He
retired as Governor of Reserve Bank of India.
|
| General |
- He was chief economic adviser to India's Ministry of
Finance before taking over as Governor, RBI.
- During his tenure in India, he was on leave of absence
as a professor of finance at the graduate business school at
the University of Chicago.
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