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C. Rangarajan

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Chakravarthi Rangarajan 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.

BORN

1932

HONOUR

Padma Vibhushan in literature & education

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Key facts

Born
1932
Sector
Banking & finance
Profession
Indian politician
Gender
Male

Biography

Chakravarthi Rangarajan 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.

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Timeline

  1. 1997Becomes governor of Andhra Pradesh
  2. 1998Becomes Governor of Odisha
  3. 2001Becomes Governor of Tamil Nadu
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