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Raghuram Govind Rajan (born 3 February 1963) is an Indian economist and former central banker. He has been the Katherine Dusak Miller Distinguished Service Professor of Finance at the University of Chicago's Booth School of Business since 2016. He was previously with the university's economics department from 1991 to 2013. Rajan served as the Chief Economist of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) from 2003 to 2006. He oversaw Indian monetary policy as the 23rd Governor of the Reserve Bank of India from 2013 to 2016. During this period, he was appointed Vice-Chairman of the Bank for International Settlements in 2015.

Rajan's early warnings of emerging risks in the global financial system three years before the 2008 worldwide financial crisis received international scrutiny. His views came to be seen as prescient and he was extensively interviewed for the documentary Inside Job (2010). Later that year, he published his debut book on the matter, Fault Lines: How Hidden Fractures Still Threaten the World Economy. He received the Fischer Black Prize in 2003 and was named to Time's 100 most influential people list in 2016. Rajan's academic research is focused on corporate finance, economic development, and financial regulation.