Union Finance Minister Arun Jaitley has been chosen as ‘Finance Minister of the Year, Asia’ by London-based publication Emerging Markets in October 2015. The magazine said Jaitely deserves some recognition for India’s relative economic success over the last 18 months. Apart from this, Atiur Rahman, the Governor of Bangladesh Bank was named as the Central Bank Governor of the Year, Asia 2015. He was awarded for generating considerable strength and resilience in the economy of Bangladesh.

In 2014, the magazine had named governor of the Reserve Bank of India, Raghuram Rajan for Central Bank Governor of the Year award for Asia. In 2010, it also chose Pranab Mukherjee as ‘Finance Minister of the Year, Asia’. Emerging Markets is part of Euromoney Institutional Investor plc, one of the largest providers of financial information worldwide.

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