Dr.

Raghuram Govindarajan (born 3 February 1963) is an Indian economist and the

Katherine Dusak Miller Distinguished Service Professor of Finance at the University of
Chicago Booth School of Business.[1][2][3][4] Between 2003 and 2006 he was Chief
Economist and director of research at the International Monetary Fund.[3] From September
2013 through September 2016 [3] he was the 23rd Governor of the Reserve Bank of India; in
2015, during his tenure at the RBI, he became the Vice-Chairman of the Bank for
International Settlements.[5]

At the Federal Reserve annual Jackson Hole conference in 2005, Rajan warned about the
growing risks in the financial system and proposed policies that would reduce such risks.
Former U.S. Treasury Secretary Lawrence Summers called the warnings "misguided" and
Rajan himself a "luddite".[6] However, following the financial crisis of 2007–2008, Rajan's
views came to be seen as prescient and he was extensively interviewed for the Academy
Awards-winning documentary Inside Job (2010).

In 2003, Rajan received the inaugural Fischer Black Prize, given every two years by the
American Finance Association to the financial economist younger than 40 who has made the
most significant contribution to the theory and practice of finance. His book, Fault Lines: How
Hidden Fractures Still Threaten the World Economy, won the Financial Times/Goldman
Sachs Business Book of the Year award in 2010. In 2016, he was named by Time in its list of
the '100 Most Influential People in the World'.[7][8]