Raghuram Rajan

Katherine Miller Professor of Finance, University of Chicago’s Booth School | Author, 'Between Profits and Purpose' and 'Fault Lines'

Raghuram Rajan is the Katherine Miller Professor of Finance at the University of Chicago’s Booth School. He was the Governor of the Reserve Bank of India between 2013 and 2016, Vice-Chairman of the Board of the Bank for International Settlements (2015-16) and Chief Economist at the International Monetary Fund (2003-2006).

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Dr. Rajan’s book Fault Lines (2010) won the Financial Times prize for best business book and his book The Third Pillar: How Markets and the State hold the Community Behind (2019) was a finalist for the award. His forthcoming book, Between Profits and Purpose: The Company in a Fracturing World will be published by Yale University Press in 2027.

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He was the President of the American Finance Association (AFA) in2011. He received the AFA’s inaugural Fischer Black Prize in 2003, the Deutsche Bank Prize for financial economics in 2013 and Euromoney magazine’s Central Banker of the Year award in 2014.

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Dr. Rajan is Senior Economic Advisor to BDT&MSD, and on advisory boards to PIMCO, Andersen Tax, and the stable coin RLUSD, as well as to the IMF Managing Director and the President of the New York Fed. He is Chairman of the Group of Thirty and the Per Jacobsson Foundation.