Background
Raghuram Rajan was born to an Indian diplomat in Bhopal in 1963 to a Tamil family.
Raghuram Rajan was born to an Indian diplomat in Bhopal in 1963 to a Tamil family.
Till his 7th class he was abroad and then studied his rest of schooling in Delhi.
Rajan was a gold medalist in IIT Delhi and IIM Ahmedabad.
Raghuram G. Rajan is heavily involved in research-based policy advice at the highest level. He serves as Chief Economic Adviser in the Finance Ministry, Government of India. Previously, he was Chief Economist at the International Monetary Fund (2003 - 2006). He has chaired the Indian government’s Committee on Financial Sector Reforms, is a senior advisor to BDT Capital Partners, Booz & Company, and is on the international advisory board of Bank Itaú-Unibanco. Raghuram G. Rajan is a director of the Chicago Council on Global Affairs and member of the Advisory Council to the Comptroller General of the United States, as well as of the FDIC Systemic Resolution Advisory Committee. He was the President of the American Finance Association in 2011 and is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
Sovereign debt, government myopia, and the financial sector (with Viral Acharya)
The Anatomy of a Credit Crisis: The Boom and Bust in Farm Land Prices in the United States in the 1920s (with Rodney Ramcharan)
Constituencies and Legislation: The Fight over the McFadden Act of 1927 (with Rodney Ramcharan)
Failed States, Vicious Cycles, and a Proposal
Illiquid Banks, Financial Stability, and Interest Rate Policy (with Douglas Diamond)
Presidential Address: The Corporation in Finance
Trade Credit Contracts (with Leora Klapper and Luc Laeven)
Land and Credit: A Study of the Political Economy of Banking in the United States in the Early 20th Century (with Rodney Ramcharan)
The Financial Crisis and the Death (or Hegemony) of Development Economics
Banks and Cross-Border Capital Flows: Policy Challenges and Regulatory Responses (with the Committee on International Economic Policy and Reform)
Rethinking Central Banking
The Squam Lake Report: Fixing the Financial System (with Kenneth R. French, Martin N. Baily and others)
A Hundred Small Steps: Report of the High Level Committee on Financial Sector Reforms to the Prime Minister of India