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Urjit Patel | |
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| Chairman of National Institute of Public Finance and Policy | |
| Assumed office 19 June 2020 | |
| 24th Governor of the Reserve Bank of India | |
| In office 4 September 2016 – 10 December 2018 | |
| Preceded by | Raghuram Rajan |
| Succeeded by | Shaktikanta Das |
| Deputy Governor of Reserve Bank of India | |
| In office 11 January 2013 - 4 September 2016 | |
| Governor | Duvvuri Subbarao Raghuram Rajan |
| Succeeded by | Viral Acharya |
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| Born | Urjit Ravindra Patel 28 October 1963 Nairobi, British Kenya |
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| Alma mater | London School of Economics (BSc) Linacre College, Oxford (M.Phil.) Yale University (Ph.D.) |
| Profession | Economist |
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Urjit Patel (born 28 October 1963) is a Kenyan-born Indian economist, who formerly served as the 24th Governor of the Reserve Bank of India and also Deputy Governor of Reserve Bank of India, looking after monetary policy, economic research, financial markets, statistics and information management. He resigned from his post on 10 December 2018, being the first RBI governor to state personal reasons as a driving factor for resigning.
Urjit currently serves as Chairman of National Institute of Public Finance and Policy, additional director of Britannia Industries and independent director of John Cockerill India.