C. Rangarajan

C. Rangarajan
Chairman of the Prime Minister's Economic Advisory Council
Incumbent
Assumed office August 2009
Member, Rajya Sabha
In office August 2008 – August 2009
Chairman of the Prime Minister's Economic Advisory Council
Succeeded by	Prof. Suresh D. Tendulkar
Chairman of 12th Finance Commission of Government of India
Governor of Andhra Pradesh
In office 24 November 1997 – 3 January 2003
Governor of Reserve Bank of India
In office December 22, 1992 – November, 1997
Preceded by	S. Venkitaramanan
Succeeded by	Dr. Bimal Jalan
Member of Planning Commission of Government of India
In office 21 August 1991 – 21 December 1992
Deputy Governor of Reserve Bank of India
In office 12 February 1982 – 20 August 1991
Personal details
Nationality	Indian
Political party	Independent
Alma mater	University of Madras University of Pennsylvania
Profession	Economist Civil servant

C. Rangarajan (or Chakravarthy Rangarajan)(Tamil:சக்கரவர்த்தி ரங்கராஜன்) (born 1932) is an Indian economist and a distinguished former Member of Parliament and Governor of the Reserve Bank of India. Currently, he is the Chairman of the Prime Minister's Economic Advisory Council. He is also the Chairman of the Madras School of Economics, and the Founding Chairman of the CR Rao Advanced Institute of Mathematics, Statistics and Computer Science.

Early life

Rangarajan graduated from the prestigious 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 took Ph.D. in economics from the University of Pennsylvania in 1964; the subject of his doctoral thesis is not presently available in the public domain.

Career

Rangarajan taught at several institutions including the University of Pennsylvania and the IIM-A where he also served as the Director. 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 December 22, 1992 and December 21, 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.

While serving as the governor of Andhra Pradesh, he also received additional charges as governor of Orissa from 1998 to 1999 and as governor of Tamil Nadu from 2001 to 2002.

Government offices
Preceded by S. Venkitaramanan	Governor of RBI 1992 – 1997	Succeeded by Dr. Bimal Jalan
Preceded by G. Ramanujam	Dr C Rangarajan Governor of Andhra Pradesh 24 November 1997 - 3 January 2003	Succeeded by Surjit Singh Barnala
Preceded by Justice M. Fathima Beevi	Governor of Tamil Nadu 3 July 2001 - 18 January 2002	Succeeded by P. S. Ramamohan Rao

See also

• CR Rao Advanced Institute of Mathematics, Statistics and Computer Science

References

• A brief note on C. Rangarajan
• Rangarajan joins finance panel
• Dr.C.Rangarajan, Chairman Twelfth Finance Commission
• Governors of the Reserve Bank of India
• Economic Advisory Council