Laguram Rajan

Laguram Rajan is the 23rd Governor of the Reserve Bank of India. On September 4, 2013, he took over the institution of the Central Bank of India and currently serves as the Vice Chairman of the Bank for International Settlements. Lagulam is currently serving as Eric J. Glitzer's Distinguished Professor of Finance at the Booth School of Business at the University of Chicago. Prior to 2007, Laguram was the Chief Economist and Research Director of the International Monetary Fund. Afterwards, he became the Chairman of the Financial Industry Reform Commission of the Indian Government. Lagulam is interested in research areas such as banking, corporate finance, economic development, and particularly the role of finance in economic development. He has published articles in all top economic and financial journals, and has served on the editorial board of American Economic Review and Finance magazines. His work Fault Lines: How Hidden Cracks Still Threaten the World Economy won the Goldman Sachs Book of the Year award, and he also co authored with Luigi Zingales to save capitalism from the capitalists. He is a senior advisor to BDT Capital and Booz and Co, and currently serves on the International Advisory Board of Itau Unibanco, the largest private bank in Brazil. He is the Director of the Chicago Global Affairs Committee and the Auditor General of the US Advisory Board. Laguram is the President of the American Financial Association and a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. In 2003, the American Financial Association awarded Laguram the Fischer Black Prize, the first edition of the Fischer Black Prize, which was awarded biennially to financial economists under the age of 40 who had made significant contributions to financial theory and practice,