Raghuram Rajan is a renowned economist, former Chief Economist at the IMF, and a Professor at the University of Chicago’s Booth School of Business. He is a former Governor of the Reserve Bank of India, and is known for highlighting the growing risks in the global financial system prior to the 2007-08 financial crash. He has received the American Finance Association’s Fischer Black Prize, and was named by Time in its 2016 list of the 100 Most Influential People in the World.

Rajan studied for an MBA at the Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad and earned a PhD from MIT’s Sloan School of Management. He has since been a faculty member at the Booth School of Business, and a visiting professor at institutions including the Kellogg School of Management, the Stockholm School of Economics, and the Indian School of Business. He holds Honorary Doctorates from the London Business School, the Université Catholique de Louvain, and the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology.

In 2003, Rajan was appointed Chief Economist and Director of Research at the International Monetary Fund, becoming the youngest person ever to fill to the role. In 2008, he was appointed an honorary economic advisory by Indian Prime Minister Dr Manmohan Singh, and later became chief economic advisor to the Ministry of Finance, before serving a term as Governor of the Reserve Bank of India. In 2015, he was appointed Vice-Chairman of the Bank for International Settlements.

Rajan has published in journals including the Journal of Political Economy, the American Economic Review and the Oxford Review of Economic Policy. His books include Saving Capitalism from the Capitalists, co-authored with Luigi Zingales, and Fault Lines: How Hidden Fractures Still Threaten the World Economy, which won the Financial Times and Goldman Sachs Business Book of the Year Award.