Raghuram Rajan

Raghuram G. Rajan

Raghuram G. Rajan’s research interests are in banking, corporate finance and economic development, especially the role finance plays in it.

He was the 23rd governor of the Reserve Bank of India between September 2013 and September 2016. Between 2003 and 2006, Rajan was the chief economist and director of research at the International Monetary Fund. He co-authored Saving Capitalism from the Capitalists with Luigi Zingales in 2003. He then wrote Fault Lines: How Hidden Fractures Still Threaten the World Economy, for which he was awarded the Financial Times-Goldman Sachs prize for best business book in 2010.

Rajan is a member of the Group of Thirty. He was president of the American Finance Association in 2011 and is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. In January 2003, the American Finance Association awarded Rajan the inaugural Fischer Black Prize for the best finance researcher under the age of 40. The other awards he has received include the Infosys prize for the Economic Sciences in 2012, the Deutsche Bank Prize for Financial Economics in 2013, Euromoney Central Banker Governor of the Year 2014, and Banker Magazine (FT Group) Central Bank Governor of the Year 2016.

Rajan Stories

Is inflation the answer?

Prof. Raghuram Rajan that more innovative and exotic proposals to economy must be examined carefully


CNN.com

European Banks Have Not ‘Come Clean’ About Financial Holdings, Rajan Says

Prof. Raghuram Rajan talks about stock market volatility, investor sentiment and European debt crisis


Free Enterprise Vs. Regulation

Prof. Raghuram Rajan discusses the question of achieving the right mix of free enterprise and sensible regulation


Forbes India

Q&A: Rajan Says Governments Can't Afford Another Crisis

Chicago Booth professor feels that amid turmoil, debate about role of government is worth having


MarketWatch

Economist seeks lessons from crisis

Raghuram Rajan, who predicted 2008 financial collapse, warns in new book that income inequality still threatens economy


University of Chicago

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