Nationality Indian Succeeded by Suresh Tendulkar Name C. Rangarajan Preceded by S. Venkitaramanan | Role Economist Awards Padma Vibhushan | |
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Alma mater University of Madras
University of Pennsylvania Profession Economist
civil servant Education University of Pennsylvania, Loyola College, Chennai, University of Madras Books Indian Economy: Essays on Money and Finance | ||
Political party Independent politician | ||
Dr c rangarajan s speech on evolution of computers doms iit madras
C. Rangarajan or Chakravarthi Rangarajan (born 1932) is an Indian economist and a distinguished former Member of Parliament and Ex-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; President of the Indian Statistical Institute; the Founding Chairman of the CR Rao Advanced Institute of Mathematics, Statistics and Computer Science; and Chancellor of the University of Hyderabad.
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- Dr c rangarajan s speech on evolution of computers doms iit madras
- Prof c rangarajan an indian economist and ex rbi governor of india at iim ahmedabad
- Early life
- Career
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Prof c rangarajan an indian economist and ex rbi governor of india at iim ahmedabad
Early life
Rangarajan, a student of National College (Tiruchirappalli) between 1947 and 1949, graduated from Loyola College of the University of Madras in the commerce stream (where he was a contemporary of the Yale University economics professor T N Srinivasan). He later received his PhD in economics from the University of Pennsylvania in 1964. His thesis was titled "Variability of Demand Deposits".
Career
Rangarajan taught at several institutions including the University of Pennsylvania and the IIM-A. He was a well known teacher of economics at IIMA for the postgraduate and the doctoral courses.His textbook on macro economics was used in business management schools. He was awarded the title of Honorary Fellow of IIM-A in 1997.
In 2002, the Government of India awarded him the Padma Vibhushan, India's second highest civilian award.
He served as a Deputy Governor of the Reserve Bank of India from 1982 to 1991, after which he served as the Governor of the Reserve Bank of India between 22 December 1992 and 21 December 1997. He also served as the Governor of Andhra Pradesh from 24 November 1997 to 3 January 2003. After demitting that office, he took charge as the chairman of the Twelfth Finance Commission.
From 2005 onwards, he was the Chairman of the Prime Minister's Economic Advisory Council. In August 2008, he resigned as the Chairman of the Prime Minister's Economic Advisory Council and was nominated as a member of the Rajya Sabha. He resigned from the Rajya Sabha in August 2009 and was re-appointed the Chairman of the Prime Minister's Economic Advisory Council. He resigned from the Council on 19 May 2014, when the UPA government was voted out of power.
While serving as the governor of Andhra Pradesh, he also received additional charges as governor of Odisha from 1998 to 1999 and as governor of Tamil Nadu from 2001 to 2002.