Sunday, 12 April 2020

Raghuram Rajan member of External Advisory Group of IMF

Raghuram Rajan member  of External Advisory Group of IMF

 The group will provide perspectives from around the globe on key developments and policy issues the world now faces

IMF Managing Director Kristalina Georgieva on April 10 named former RBI Governor Raghuram Rajan and 11 others to her external advisory group to provide perspectives from around the globe on key developments and policy issues, including responses to the exceptional challenges the world now faces 

Mr. Rajan, 57, who was the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) Governor for three years until September 2016, is currently working as a professor at the University of Chicago.

Other members of the group are Tharman Shanmugaratnam, Senior Minister of Singapore and Chairman of the Monetary Authority of Singapore; Kristin Forbes, Professor, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Kevin Rudd, former Prime Minister of Australia; Lord Mark Malloch Brown, former UN deputy secretary-general among others.