Raghu ram rajan biography of williams

Raghuram Rajan is a prominent economist hailing from India. He is perhaps best known for being the Governer of the Reserve Bank of India, the 23^rd elected official in this capacity.

Rajan was born on 3^rd February, 1963, Bhopal India.

He had political roots as his father was a Senior Bureaucrat in the Indian Government. After completing his initial education from the Delhi Public School, he attended the Indian Institute of Technology in Delhi to obtain his bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering, a feat he achieved in 1985.

Rajan then pursued a Post Graduate Diploma in Business Administration, and in doing so, enrolled in the Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad. He managed to win the Gold medal at the institute before graduating in 1987. Rajan then travelled to the United States in his quest to obtain a Ph.D., and he did so from MIT in 1991 in the field of Management.

Rajan began his professional career as a teacher, joining the University of Chicago