Jairam Ramesh

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Full Name	Jairam Ramesh
Occupation	Economist
Date Of Birth	Apr 9, 1954(1954-04-09)
Age	70
Birthplace	Chikmagalur
Country	India
Birth City	Chikmagalur
Horoscope	Taurus

Jairam Ramesh Biography

Jairam Ramesh is one of the most popular and richest Economist who was born on April 9, 1954 in Chikmagalur, Chikmagalur, India. Jairam Ramesh was born on 9 April 1954 in Chikmagalur, Karnataka, India. His father was C. K. Ramesh, and his mother, Sridevi Ramesh. His father was a Professor of Civil Engineering in IIT Bombay. He considers himself a practising Hindu with Buddhism ingrained and calls himself a ‘Hind-Budh’.

In 1978, Jairam Ramesh joined the World Bank for a short assignment. He returned to India in December 1979 and worked as assistant to economist Lovraj Kumar at the Bureau of Industrial Costs and Prices. From 1983 to 1985 he was Officer on Special Duty in the Advisory Board of Energy. He then worked in the Planning Commission (advisor to Abid Hussain), Ministry of Industry and other economic departments of the Central Government, including: analysing energy policy during 1983–85, reorganising the CSIR in 1986 and implementing technology missions during 1987–89.

In 1990, he worked as an “Officer on Special Duty” during the National Front administration of the V.P. Singh government. He reorganised India’s international trade agencies in 1990 and was OSD to the Prime Minister in

1991. But he was removed from PMO within few weeks. In 1991 he worked in Manmohan Singh’s finance ministry in the Narasimha Rao administration.

Ramesh participated in India’s economic reforms in 1991 and 1997. He was advisor to the Deputy Chairman of the Planning Commission in 1992–94, served on special mission to Jammu and Kashmir during 1993–95 and was advisor to Finance Minister Palaniappan Chidambaram between 1996–98. The central government invited him to join the official delegation to the World Trade Organization meeting in Seattle in 1999.

Ramesh graduated from IIT Bombay in 1975 with a B.Tech. in Mechanical Engineering. Between 1975–77 he studied at Carnegie Mellon University’s Heinz College and received a Master of Science in Public Policy and Public Management. In 1977–78, he started on the Doctoral program at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he had planned to study technology policy, economics, engineering, and management, as part of the newly established interdisciplinary technology policy programme. Family exigencies required him to return to India and that program remained incomplete.

Jairam Ramesh Net Worth

Jairam Ramesh is one of the richest Economist from India. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Jairam Ramesh 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

Jairam Ramesh (born 9 April 1954) is an Indian economist and politician belonging to Indian National Congress. He is a Member of Parliament representing Karnataka state in the Rajya Sabha. In July 2011, Jairam Ramesh was elevated to the Union Council of Ministers of India and appointed Minister of Rural Development and Minister (additional charge) of the new Ministry of Drinking Water and Sanitation. However, in the cabinet reshuffle in October 2012, he has been divested of the portfolio of Ministry of Drinking Water and Sanitation. He was previously the Indian Minister of State (Independent Charge) at the Ministry of Environment and Forests from May 2009 to July 2011.

Jairam Ramesh attended St. Xavier’s School, Ranchi in 1961–1963 in classes 3 to 5. He read Paul Samuelson (an American economist who won the Nobel Prize in 1970) and found him very interesting. His presentation, the substance of issues such as population and growth got him thinking of economics and the larger issues of life. Also when he was 17, in 1971, he read Asian Drama, one of the early books of Gunnar Myrdal (a Swedish economist who won the Nobel Prize in 1974) and wrote to him at the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute. Myrdal sent a very nice reply and said to stay in touch with him. Asian Drama was very influential to Ramesh’s understanding of development planning in India.

He married K. R. Jayashree on 26 January 1981. He currently resides at Lodi Gardens, Rajesh Pilot Marg, New Delhi. Till his election to Rajya Sabha from Karnataka in July 2016, his permanent residence was at Khairatabad, Hyderabad, Telangana. His wife died in early 2019.

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Following his 2009 re-election to the Indian Parliament, on 28 May 2009 Ramesh was given independent charge of Environment and Forests as Minister of State in the Congress-led administration. He was chief negotiator for India at the 2009 United Nations Climate Change Conference held in Copenhagen, Denmark, between 7 and 18 December 2009.

Facts & Trivia

Jairam Ranked on the list of most popular Economist. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in India. Jairam Ramesh celebrates birthday on April 9 of every year.

Ramesh was part of the 19-member ‘Foundation Day Committee’ of the All India Congress Committee (AICC), under the chairmanship of party president Sonia Gandhi, for planning the 2010 year-long celebrations of the 125th anniversary of the Congress Party. One

Top Facts about Jairam Ramesh

1. Jairam Ramesh is an Indian politician and member of the Indian National Congress.
2. He served as the Minister of Rural Development from 2011-2014.
3. Ramesh has authored several books on environmental issues and policy-making.
4. He holds a degree in mechanical engineering from IIT Bombay.
5. Ramesh was a member of the Planning Commission of India from 2004-2009.
6. He has been a vocal advocate for sustainable development and climate change action.
7. Ramesh was awarded the Skoll Foundation’s Social Entrepreneurship Award in 2010.
8. He has also served as a visiting faculty member at various universities, including MIT and Yale.
9. In 2020, he was appointed as a Rajya Sabha MP from Andhra Pradesh state.
10. Ramesh has been involved in various initiatives aimed at promoting rural development and poverty alleviation in India.