Speaker Details
Dr Raghuram Rajan
Professor of Finance, University of Chicago’s Booth School of Business
Raghuram Rajan is the Eric J Gleacher Distinguished Service Professor of Finance at the University of Chicago's Graduate School of Business.
Dr Rajan is also currently an economic advisor to the Prime Minister of India. Prior to resuming teaching in 2007, Dr Rajan was the Economic Counsellor and Director of Research (in plain English, the Chief Economist) at the International Monetary Fund from 2003. Since then, he has chaired the Indian government's Committee on Financial Sector Reforms, which submitted its report in September 2008.
The research interests of Dr Rajan are; banking, corporate finance, and economic development, especially the role finance plays in it. His papers have been published in all the top economics and finance journals, and he has served on the editorial board of the American Economic Review and the Journal of Finance. He has written a book with Luigi Zingales entitled Saving Capitalism from the Capitalists and has just finished another one entitled Fault Lines: How Hidden Fractures Still Threaten the World Economy, which will be published in May by Princeton University Press.
Senior advisor to Booz and Co, on the academic advisory board of Moodys, and on the international advisory board of Bank Itau-Unibanco. Dr Rajan is a director of the Chicago Council on Global Affairs and on the Comptroller General of the United State's Advisory Council. He is the President (elect) of the American Finance Association and a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. In January 2003, the American Finance Association awarded Dr Rajan the inaugural Fischer Black Prize, given every two years to the financial economist under age 40 who has made the most significant contribution to the theory and practice of finance.
