Raghuram Rajan

Raghuram Rajan

Non resident Senior Fellow

Raghuram Rajan is the Katherine Dusak Miller Distinguished Service Professor of Finance at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business. He was the 23rd Governor of the Reserve Bank of India between September 2013 and September 2016. Prior to that, he was the Chief Economist at the International Monetary Fund from 2003 to 2006, the youngest person ever to hold the position. His research is broadly on the role of institutions, especially financial institutions, in fostering economic development. He is an electrical engineering graduate from the Indian Institute of Technology in Delhi. He earned his M.B.A. from the Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, and his Ph.D. from MIT.