| Name
/ Title |
URJIT PATEL |
| Date of
Birth |
October 28, 1963 |
| Identity |
24th Governor, Reserve Bank of India |
|
Date-wise Events / Works |
- 1997 to 2006: Executive
Director, Infrastructure Development Finance Company.
- 2004 to 2006: Member,
Integrated Energy Policy Committee, Government of India.
- 2008 t0 2009: President
(Business Development), Reliance Industries.
- January 11, 2013: He was
appointed as the Deputy Governor of the Reserve Bank of
India for a period of 3 years.
- August 20, 2016: He was
named as the governor of RBI to succeed Raghuram Rajan when
the latter's term expired.
- September 04, 2016:
Raghuram Rajan's term as previous governor, RBI, expired on
this day, and Urjit Patel became the Governor, RBI.
- September 06, 2016: He
assumed charge as the Governor of the Reserve Bank of India
on this day since September 4 was a Sunday and Monday was a
holiday due to Ganesh Chaturthi.
|
| General |
- He is a PhD (Economics) from Yale University
(1990), M Phil from Oxford (1986) and a B. Sc. from the
University of London.
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