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Rakesh Mohan
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Rakesh Mohan is the Deputy Governor of Reserve Bank of India. His term was to end in January 2010, but he will leave RBI on June 10 2010 to join as Distinguished Consulting Professor at the Stanford Center for International Development.

Mohan is in-charge of monetary policy, financial markets and economic research and statistics. Recently, he was the chairman of the Committee on Financial Sector Assessment, which undertook a stress test of the Indian financial sector and prepared the roadmap for further strengthening of the sector.

He also headed the G-20 Working Group on Enhancing Sound Regulation and Strengthening Transparency and the Committee on the Global Financial System’s (CGFS) Report on Capital Flows and Emerging Market Economies.

Prior to taking over as Deputy Governor of the Reserve Bank, Dr. Mohan was Director and Chief Executive of the Indian Council for Research and International Economic Relations and Vice-Chairman Infrastructure Development Finance Company. He also held the position of Adviser to the Finance Minister and Chief Economic Adviser between January 4, 2001 and May 15, 2002. He is also member of the Economic Advisory Council to the Prime Minister and member of the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India.

Education and personal life

Mohan is an economics graduate from Yale University and received his master’s degree and a doctorate in economics from Princeton University. He is also a Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering from Imperial College of Science and Technology, University of London.

References

http://www.business-standard.com/india/storypage.php?autono=357070 http://www.rbi.org.in/scripts/BS_PressReleaseDisplay.aspx?prid=20625