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).

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 latest book, Between Profits and Purpose:
The Company in a Fracturing World will be published by Yale University Press in 2027.
Dr. Rajan was the President of the American Finance Association (AFA) in 2011. 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.

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 co-chairs the advisory committee for the Federal Reserve
on balance sheet policies. He is Chairman of the Group of Thirty and the Per Jacobsson
Foundation.