Raghuram G. Rajan
Economist and former central banker
Raghuram G. Rajan is an Indian economist and former governor of the Reserve Bank of India. He wrote Fault Lines, a book about the weaknesses behind the 2008 financial crisis.
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Indian Born 1963 in Bhopal, India
About Raghuram G. Rajan
Raghuram Govind Rajan was born in 1963 in Bhopal, India. He teaches finance at the Booth School of Business, part of the University of Chicago. His research covers corporate finance, economic development and financial regulation. Between 2003 and 2006 he held the top economist post at the International Monetary Fund (IMF). From 2013 to 2016 he was the 23rd Governor of the Reserve Bank of India, and in 2015 he became Vice-Chairman of the Bank for International Settlements. Time magazine named him to its list of the 100 most influential people in 2016. Rajan raised early warnings about risks in the global financial system about three years before the 2008 crisis. In 2010 he published Fault Lines: How Hidden Fractures Still Threaten the World Economy, which won the Financial Times prize for the best business book.