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- His father was an IPS Officer who topped the 1953 batch.
- He believed his father to be a diplomat all his life.
- When he was young, his dream was to become the Prime Minister in India.
- His school had an orchestra.
- In an interview, he said, “I didn’t own a blazer in my school days”.
- In 1985, he was awarded Director’s Gold Medal as the best all-round student in IIT, Delhi.
- In 1987, he received the Gold Medal from IIM Ahmedabad.
- The title of his Ph.D. thesis was “Essays on Banking”.
- Rajan received the 2003 Fischer Black Prize.
- In 2005, he predicted that 2008 would be a financial crisis.
- Between October 2003 and December 2006, he served as the Chief Economist for the International Monetary Fund.
- In 2008, he was appointed honorary Economic Advisor by Dr. Manmohan Sing, the former Prime Minister of India.
- For his book, ‘Fault Lines: How Hidden Fractures Still Threaten the World Economy,’ he was awarded the Financial Times-Goldman Sachs best business book of the year prize in 2010.
- He was appointed as Chief Economic Adviser to India’s Finance Ministry on 10 August 2012.
- The 5th of September. 2013 he was elected the youngest governor of the Reserve Bank of India.
- All over the globe, economists suggested in 2014 that he would replace Christine Lagarde to lead the IMF.
- Raghuram Rajan received the Best Bank Governor Award from Euromoney Magazine for 2014.
- In 2016, Time magazine named him in the list of the ‘100 Most Influential People in the World.’
- In September 2017, his book “I Do What I Do” was released. This book attracted a lot of media attention. for Being critical of government policies.
- In an interview, he said that “my son thinks I am from the Stone Age”.
- Raghuram Rajan is a vegetarian.
- He is called a “Rockstar” and a “Financial Prophet” in the field of Economics.