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Responding to Globalisation

Padmavibhushan Dr. C. Rangarajan

Chairman, Economic Advisory Council to the Prime Minister,

Former Governor, Reserve Bank of India

Monday, October 9,2006

3.30 pm

P.C.Saxena Auditorium, IIT Bombay

About the Speaker:

Dr. C. Rangarajan is a leading economist of the country who has played a key role both as an academic and a policy maker.  He has held several important positions which include Governor of Reserve Bank of India and Governor of Andhra Pradesh. Dr. C. Rangarajan has been Chairman, Economic Advisory Council to the Prime Minister since January, 2005.

Prior to this, he was Chairman, Twelfth Finance Commission.  The Report of the Commission was well received both by the Centre and the States. It broke new ground in enabling States to achieve fiscal  consolidation.

After obtaining his Honours Degree from Madras , he went to the University of Pennsylvania wherefrom he took his Ph.D degree in Economics.  In the U.S. , he has taught at the Wharton School of Finance & Commerce, University of Pennsylvania and the Graduate School of Business Administration, New York University.  In India , he has taught at Loyola College , Madras ; University of Rajasthan, Jaipur;  Indian Statistical Institute, New Delhi and for well over a decade and a half at Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad.  He was for a time Fellow at the International Food Policy Research Institute, Washington.