Raghuram Rajan

Raghuram Rajan is the Katherine Dusak Miller Distinguished Service Professor of Finance at the University of Chicago’s Booth School. He boasts an extensive career in banking and finance. Rajan served as Chief Economist at the International Monetary Fund (2003-2006), Chief Economic Advisor to the Government of India (2012-13), Governor of the Reserve Bank of India (2013-2016), and Vice-Chairman of the Board of the Bank for International Settlements (2015-16).

As an academic, Raghuram Rajan’s research focuses on banking, corporate finance, and economic development, yielding over a hundred papers in esteemed journals. His book “Fault Lines: How Hidden Fractures Still Threaten the World Economy” won the Financial Times prize for best business book, and “The Third Pillar: How Markets and the State hold the Community Behind” was shortlisted as a finalist in 2019. His book, “Breaking the Mold: Reimagining India’s Economic Future“, co-authored with Rohit Lamba, explores new economic pathways. Rajan’s forthcoming book, Between Profits and Purpose: The Company in a Fracturing World will be published by Yale University Press in 2027.

Rajan was the President of the American Finance Association (AFA) in 2011. Recognised for his contributions, Rajan received the American Finance Association’s Fischer Black Prize (2003), the Deutsche Bank Prize for financial economics (2013), Euromoney magazine’s Central Banker of the Year award (2014), and The Banker magazine’s Global Central Banker award (2016). Time magazine also named him one of the 100 most influential people in the world in 2016.

Raghuram Rajan presently chairs the Group of Thirty and the Per Jacobsson Foundation. He is a senior economic advisor to BDT & MSD Partners and serves on advisory boards to PIMCO, Andersen Tax, and the stable coin RLUSD, as well as to the IMF Managing Director and the President of the New York Fed.