Author Overview
Raghuram G. Rajan is a professor of finance at the University of Chicago. He was the Governor of the Reserve Bank of India between 2013 and 2016 and also served as Vice-Chairman of the Board of the Bank for International Settlements. Dr Rajan was the Chief Economist and Director of Research at the International Monetary Fund from 2003 to 2006. Dr Rajan co-authored Saving Capitalism from the Capitalists with Luigi Zingales and wrote Fault Lines: How Hidden Fractures Still Threaten the World Economy, for which he was awarded the Financial Times-Goldman Sachs prize for best business book. In 2003, Dr Rajan received the inaugural Fischer Black Prize for the best finance researcher under the age of forty. Other awards he has received include the Deutsche Bank Prize for Financial Economics in 2013, Euromoney’s Central Banker of the Year Award 2014 and The Banker’s Global Central Banker of the Year award in 2016.