RBI Governor Raghuram Rajan has been felicitated with the Central Banker of the Year Award (Global and Asia Pacific) for 2016 by the Financial Times Group’s monthly publication ‘The Banker’. The Central Banker of the Year 2016 awards celebrate the officials that have best managed to stimulate growth and stabilise their country’s economy. In recognition of the RBI contribution to these achievements, The Banker has felicitated Rajan with the title of Global and Asia-Pacific Central Bank Governor of the Year.

Did You Know???

• Raghuram Govind Rajan is the current and the 23rd Governor of the Reserve Bank of India.
• He took charge of India’s central banking institution on 5 September 2013, succeeding Duvvuri Subbarao.
• Rajan was chief economic adviser to India’s Ministry of Finance during the previous year and chief economist at the International Monetary Fund from 2003 to 2007.
• Raghuram Rajan was born 1963 in Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh in a Tamil family and his father was a senior officer in the Intelligence Bureau (India).
• He received a PhD in Management from the MIT Sloan School of Management in 1991 for his thesis titled “Essays on Banking”.