Background
Mohan, Rakesh was born on January 14, 1948 in Sitapur, U.P., India. Son of Ratish and Satya (Bansal) Mohan.
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Based on five years of in-depth investigation, this is a readable, concise summary of one of the largest research projects ever undertaken on a major city in a developing country. The book examines five key urban sectors--housing, transport, employment location, labor markets, and public finance--in the developing cities of Bogotá and Cali, Colombia. After an initial overview of the study and its goals, Mohan goes on to set Bogotá in its national urban and economic context and discusses such critical issues as income distribution, poverty, the characteristics of the labor force, labor force participation and earnings, women and the labor market, and social and spatial inequalities. With its abundance of quantitative information, coupled with a unique depth and breadth of coverage, this book makes an invaluable contribution to our understanding of the effect of policies and projects on developing countries.
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Mohan, Rakesh was born on January 14, 1948 in Sitapur, U.P., India. Son of Ratish and Satya (Bansal) Mohan.
Mohan did his schooling from Mayo College, a boarding school in Rajasthan, followed by Bachelor of Science (University of London) 1969. Bachelor in Economics, Yale University 1971, Master of Arts in Economics, 1974 and Doctor of Philosophy 1977 from Princeton University.
He is the Vice Chairperson of Indian Institute for Human Settlements. He was appointed in November 2012 as an Executive Director of the International Monetary Fund for a three-year term, and in April 2010, he joined Nestle India, as a non-executive director He remained an adviser to numerous ministries in Government of India, including industry, and finance, and later became an important part of Indian economic reforms in the 1990s, and his report under the "Rakesh Mohan Committee on Infrastructure", became a "landmark document in the evolution of thinking on economic policy issues".
He is the Professor in the Practice of International Economics of Finance, School of Management, and Senior Fellow, Jackson Institute or Global Affairs at Yale University and will shortly be taking over as India"s Executive Director at the International Monetary Fund, Washington District of Columbia, United States of America. Mohan started his career in urban economics, 1974 to 1988.
During this period, as a part of the World Bank"s, City Study project, he studied the city of Bogota, Colombia, 1976–1980. He returned to India in 1980, where he first joined the Planning Commission as a senior consultant, while Manmohan Singh was also a member.
In 1985 according to the American Economic Association he was listed as "Economist" in the Philippines Division of the World Bank with research interests listed as "Economic policy and analysis of the Philippines". He became the Deputy Governor, Reserve Bank of India (Reserve Bank of India) in September 2002 and moved to North Block in October 2004 as Secretary, Department of Economic Affairs and Chief Economic Adviser to the Finance Minister of India till July 2005, before returning to Reserve Bank of India, where he remained till June 2009, when he took up an assignment at Stanford Centre for International Development at Stanford University, United States, and subsequently joined McKinsey and Company"s economic research wing.
In 2010 back in India from his project, he worked with Nandan Nilekani, Shirish Patel, Keshub Mahindra, Deepak Parekh, to set up Indian Institute for Human Settlements, in Delhi.
In April 2010, he joined the board of directors of Nestle India. In November 2012, he joined International Monetary Fund as executive director.In addition to India, Mohan will also represent three other countries including Bangladesh, Sri Lanka and Bhutan on the International Monetary Fund board. Also, he is on the advisory board of OMFIF where he is regularly involved in meetings regarding the financial and monetary system.
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Member American Economics Association, Applied Regional Science Association.
Married Rasika Khanna, October 14, 1983. Children: Tarini, Rasesh.