C. Rangarajan

C. Rangarajan
Chairman of the Prime Minister's Economic Advisory Council
In office
August 2009 – 16 May 2014
Succeeded byBibek Debroy
In office
2005 – 2008
Preceded bySuresh D. Tendulkar
Member of Rajya Sabha
In office
August 2008 – August 2009
Chairman of the Twelfth Finance Commission of India
In office
2003–2004
Preceded byA. M. Khusro
Succeeded byVijay Kelkar
16th Governor of Andhra Pradesh
In office
24 November 1997 – 3 January 2003
Preceded byKrishan Kant
Succeeded bySurjit Singh Barnala
19th Governor of Reserve Bank of India
In office
22 December 1992 – 21 November 1997
Preceded byS. Venkitaramanan
Succeeded byBimal 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
GovernorManmohan Singh
Amitav Ghosh (banker)
R.N. Malhotra
S. Venkitaramanan
Personal details
Political partyIndependent
Alma materNational College, Trichy
University of Madras (B.A.)
University of Pennsylvania (Ph.D.)
ProfessionEconomist
Civil servant
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Chakravarthi Rangarajan (born 1932) 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.[1]

  1. ^ "Notification" (PDF). University of Hyderabad: Office of the Registrar. 8 April 2015. Retrieved 18 May 2015.[permanent dead link]