Raghuram Rajan

Quick Facts

Full Name	Raghuram Rajan
Occupation	Economist
Date Of Birth	Feb 3, 1963(1963-02-03)
Age	61
Birthplace	Bhopal
Country	India
Birth City	Madhya Pradesh
Horoscope	Aquarius

Raghuram Rajan Biography

Raghuram Rajan is one of the most popular and richest Economist who was born on February 3, 1963 in Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh, India. This prominent economist was elected Governor of the Reserve Bank of India in 2013. He had previously served as an executive advisor with the Indian Ministry of Finance and the International Monetary Fund.

2012 was a split between Rajan and In 2012, Rajan and economist and New York Times journalist Paul Krugman expressed opposing views on how to improve European and American economies. , an economist and New York Times journalist. They had opposing views about how to improve the American and European economies.

Raghuram Govinda Rajan (born 3 February 1963) is an Indian economist and the Katherine Dusak Miller Distinguished Service Professor of Finance at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business. Between 2003 and 2006 he was Chief Economist and Director of Research at the International Monetary Fund. From September 2013 through September 2016 he was the 23rd Governor of the Reserve Bank of India; in 2015, during his tenure at the RBI, he became the Vice-Chairman of the Bank for International Settlements.

Assigned to the Intelligence Bureau, R Govindarajan, his father, was posted to Indonesia in 1966. In 1968 he joined the newly created external intelligence unit of the Intelligence Bureau, the Research and Analysis Wing (R&AW) where he served as staff officer under R. N. Kao and became part of the “Kaoboys”. In 1970 he was posted to Sri Lanka, where Raghuram Rajan missed school one year because of political turmoil. After Sri Lanka, R Govindarajan was posted to Belgium where the children attended a French school. In 1974 the family returned to India. Throughout his childhood, Rajan presumed his father to be a diplomat since the family traveled on diplomatic passports. He was a half-term student of Campion School, Bhopal until 1974.

Two children were born to his marriage to Radhika Puri, a law professor.

Raghuram Rajan Net Worth

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

He received an Indian Institute of Technology undergraduate degree in electrical engineering and a diploma in business administration from the Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad. Then he went on to complete a doctorate in business management at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

He was awarded the American Finance Association’s Fischer Black Prize, and the Deutsche Bank’s Prize for Financial Economics.

Raghuram Rajan was born on 3 February 1963 in Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh into a Tamil family.

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Who is Raghuram Rajan Dating?

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In 1991, he received a PhD for his thesis titled Essays on Banking under the supervision of Stewart Myers, consisting of three essays on the nature of the relationship between a firm or a country, and its creditor banks. The nature of financial systems had witnessed widespread changes in the 1980s, with markets getting deregulated, information becoming more widely available and easier to process, and competition having increased. The established orthodoxy claimed that deregulation must necessarily increase competition, which would translate into greater efficiency. In his thesis, Rajan argued that this might not necessarily be the case. The first essay focused on the choice available to firms between arm’s length credit and relationship-based credit. The second focused on the Glass-Steagall Act, and the conflict of interest involved when a commercial lending bank enters into investment banking. The final essay examined why indexation of a country’s debt, despite offering potential advantages, seldom featured in debt reduction plans.

Facts & Trivia

Raghuram Ranked on the list of most popular Economist. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in India. Raghuram Rajan celebrates birthday on February 3 of every year.

The Research Papers in Economics project ranks him among the world’s most influential economists, featuring him among the top 5% of authors. He was awarded the inaugural 2003 Fischer Black Prize, given biennially by the American Finance Association to the best finance researcher under the age of 40, for his “path-breaking contributions to our knowledge of financial institutions, the workings of the modern corporation, and the causes and consequences of the development of the financial sector across countries.”

Top Facts about Raghuram Rajan

1. Raghuram Rajan served as the 23rd Governor of Reserve Bank of India.
2. He is an Indian economist and academician.
3. Rajan was born on February 3, 1963, in Bhopal, India.
4. He has a PhD from MIT Sloan School of Management.
5. In 2005, he predicted the global financial crisis.
6. Rajan has also served as Chief Economist at IMF.
7. He received the Fischer Black Prize in Finance in 2003.
8. Currently, he is a professor at University of Chicago Booth School of Business.
9. Rajan has authored several books including “Fault Lines” and “The Third Pillar”.
10. He advocates for inclusive growth and sustainable development policies.

Is Raghuram Rajan an Indian citizen?

Personal life. Raghuram Rajan is an Indian citizen and holds a USA Green Card. He is married to Radhika Puri Rajan, whom he met while they were both students at IIM Ahmedabad.

Who was the youngest Chief Economist at the International Monetary Fund

from India?

In September 2003, Raghuram Rajan became the only Indian and the youngest person ever to be appointed as the Chief Economist of the International Monetary Fund at 40 years of age.

What did Raghuram Rajan study in MIT?

He attained a Bachelor’s Degree in Electrical Engineering from IIT , Delhi. He holds a Post Graduate Diploma in Business Administration from IIM Ahmedabad and he is a PhD in theory of financial decision from MIT Sloan School of Management, Cambridge, United States.

Is financial Development Making the World Riskier?

The increase in the risk bearing capacity of economies, as well as in actual risk taking, has led to a range of financial transactions that hitherto were not possible, and has created much greater access to finance for firms and households. On net, this has made the world much better off.

Can IAS become RBI governor?

Shaktikanta Das (born 26 February 1957) is a retired 1980 batch Indian Administrative Service (IAS) officer of Tamil Nadu cadre. Currently serving as the 25th governor of the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) , he was earlier a member of the Fifteenth Finance Commission and India’s Sherpa to the G20.