Raghuram Rajan
Raghuram Rajan is the Katherine Dusak Miller Distinguished Service Professor of Finance at the Chicago Booth School of Business. Prior to this, he served as the 23rd Governor of the Reserve Bank of India, where he became a central figure in the world’s third-largest economy. During his three-year term at the central bank, Dr. Rajan both witnessed and helped build the transformation of the global financial system. His current research interests include banking, corporate finance, financial intermediation and regulation, and economic development.
Raghuram Rajan Professional Experience / Academic History
Professional Experience
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Katherine Dusak Miller Distinguished Service Professor of Finance
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Chief Economic Advisor to the Finance Ministry
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Eric J. Gleacher Distinguished Service Professor of Finance
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Chief Economist
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Joseph L. Gidwitz Professor of Finance
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Fischer Black Visiting Professor
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Bertil Danielsson Visiting Professor of Banking
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Visiting Professor of Finance
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Professor of Finance
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Assistant Professor of Finance
Academic History
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Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)
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Master of Business Administration (MBA)
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BTech in Electrical Engineering
EARLY CAREER HIGHLIGHTS
- Dr. Rajan joined the International Monetary Fund in 2003 and became its youngest Chief Economist and Director of Research.
- He drew the attention of the world’s greatest bankers and financiers in 2005 when he delivered a prescient warning to the Federal Reserve, in which he predicted the financial crisis that eventually struck in 2008.
- He was the subject of prominent interviews in the 2010 Oscar-winning documentary on the crash, Inside Job.
CURRENT APPOINTMENTS
AWARDS AND RECOGNITIONS
- Finalist, Financial Times/McKinsey Best Business Book of the Year Award, 2019
- Arthur Kelly Faculty Prize for Exceptional Service at Chicago Booth, 2019
- Yashwantrao Chavan National Award, 2018
- Emory Williams MBA Teaching Award at Chicago Booth, 2018
- The Banker Magazine Central Banker of the Year, 2016
- Time Magazine 100 Most Influential People, 2016
- Central Banking Magazine Central Banker of the Year, 2015
- Euromoney Central Banker of the Year, 2014
- Deutsche Bank Prize for Financial Economics, 2013
- Foreign Policy Magazine Top 100 Global Thinkers, 2010 and 2012
- Infosys Prize for the Economic Sciences, 2012
- Global Indian of the Year Award, NASSCOM, 2011
- Bernhard Harms Prize, 2010
- Financial Times Best Business the Year Award, 2010
- Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, 2009
- Inaugural Fisher Black Prize, 2003