C. Rangarajan
Chakravarthi Rangarajan (born 1932) is an Indian economist, a former Member of Parliament and 19th governor of the Reserve Bank of India. He is the former chairman of the Prime Minister's Economic Advisory Council; he resigned the day the UPA lost power. He is also the Chairman of the Madras School of Economics; former president of the Indian Statistical Institute; the founding chairman of the CR Rao Advanced Institute of Mathematics, Statistics and Computer Science; former chancellor of the University of Hyderabad; and a professor in Ahmedabad University.
C. Rangarajan | |
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| Chairman of the Prime Minister's Economic Advisory Council | |
| In office August 2009 – 16 May 2014 | |
| Succeeded by | Bibek Debroy |
| In office 2005 – 2008 | |
| Preceded by | Suresh D. Tendulkar |
| Member of Rajya Sabha | |
| In office August 2008 – August 2009 | |
| Chairman of the Twelfth Finance Commission of India | |
| In office 2003–2004 | |
| 17th Governor of Andhra Pradesh | |
| In office 24 November 1997 – 3 January 2003 | |
| Preceded by | Krishan Kant |
| Succeeded by | Surjit Singh Barnala |
| 19th Governor of Reserve Bank of India | |
| In office 22 December 1992 – 21 November 1997 | |
| Preceded by | S. Venkitaramanan |
| Succeeded by | Bimal Jalan |
| Member of Planning Commission of Government of India | |
| In office 21 August 1991 – 21 December 1992 | |
| Deputy Governor of Reserve Bank of India | |
| In office 12 February 1982 – 20 August 1991 | |
| Governor | Manmohan Singh Amitav Ghosh (banker) R.N. Malhotra S. Venkitaramanan |
| Personal details | |
| Political party | Independent |
| Alma mater | National College, Trichy University of Madras (B.A.) University of Pennsylvania (Ph.D.) |
| Profession | Economist Civil servant |
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