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C. Rangarajan
File:Dr. C. Rangarajan.jpg

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
In office 2005–2008
Succeeded by	Suresh Tendulkar
Chairman of the Twelfth Finance Commission of India
In office 2003–2004
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 Chakravarthi Rangarajan (born 1932) is an Indian economist and a distinguished former Member of Parliament and Ex-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, President of the Indian Statistical Institute and the Founding Chairman of the CR Rao Advanced Institute of Mathematics, Statistics and Computer Science.

Early life

Rangarajan graduated from 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 received his Ph.D. in economics from the University of Pennsylvania in 1964. His thesis was titled "Variability of Demand Deposits".

Career

Rangarajan taught at several institutions including the University of Pennsylvania and the IIM-A. He was a well known teacher of economics at IIMA for the postgraduate and the doctoral courses.His textbook on macro economics was used in business management schools. 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 November 24, 1997 to January 3, 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 Odisha from 1998 to 1999 and as governor of Tamil Nadu from 2001 to 2002.

References

"Variability of Demand Deposits". Retrieved 2 July 2012.
Rangarajan, Chakravarthi (2001). Principles of Macroeconomics. Tata McGraw-Hill Education. ISBN 978-0-07-096581-2. {{cite book}}: Unknown parameter |coauthor= ignored (|author= suggested) (help)
"List of Governors". Reserve Bank of India. Retrieved 2006-12-08.
"Brief History of Odisha Legislative Assembly Since 1937". ws.ori.nic.in. 2011. Retrieved 24 April 2012. NAME OF THE GOVERNORS OF Odisha
http://orissa.gov.in/e-magazine/orissaannualreference/OR-Annual-2009/pdf/405-418.pdf

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Preceded byG. Ramanujam	Dr C Rangarajan Governor of Andhra Pradesh 24 November 1997 - 3 January 2003	Succeeded bySurjit Singh Barnala
Preceded byK.V. Raghunatha Reddy	Governor of Odisha Apr 1998- Nov 1999	Succeeded byM. M. Rajendran
Preceded byJustice M. Fathima Beevi	Governor of Tamil Nadu 3 July 2001 - 18 January 2002	Succeeded byP. S. Ramamohan Rao

v t e Governors of the Reserve Bank of India
	Sir Osborne Smith (1935–37) Sir James Braid Taylor (1937–43) Sir C. D. Deshmukh (1943–49) Sir Benegal Rama Rau (1949–57) K. G. Ambegaonkar (1957) H. V. R. Iengar (1957–62) P. C. Bhattacharya (1962–67) Lakshmi Kant Jha (1967–70) B. N. Adarkar (1970) Sarukkai Jagannathan (1970–75) N. C. Sen Gupta (1975) K. R. Puri (1975–77) M. Narasimham (1977) I. G. Patel (1977–82) Manmohan Singh (1982–85) Amitav Ghosh (1985) R. N. Malhotra (1985–90) S. Venkitaramanan (1990–92) C. Rangarajan (1992–97) Bimal Jalan (1997–2003) Y. V. Reddy (2003–08) Duvvuri Subbarao (2008–13) Raghuram Rajan (2013–16) Urjit Patel (2016–18) Shaktikanta Das (2018–24) Sanjay Malhotra (2024–present)

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