Former Deputy Governor, Reserve Bank of India,

Dr. Subir Gokarn is currently in transition, having just completed a term as Deputy Governor of the Reserve Bank of India, where he oversaw Monetary Policy, Research, Financial Markets, Communications and Deposit Insurance. He also represented the Reserve Bank at the G-20 Deputies’ forum. Prior to joining the Reserve Bank in November 2009, he was Chief Economist of Standard & Poor’s Asia-Pacific (2007-09), Executive Director and Chief Economist of CRISIL (2002-07), Chief Economist at the National Council of Applied Economic Research (NCAER), New Delhi (2000-2002) and Associate Professor at the Indira Gandhi Institute of Development Research (IGIDR), Mumbai (1991-2000). He received a Ph D degree in economics from Case Western Reserve University, USA in 1989. He was awarded a Fulbright Research Fellowship in 1997, on which he spent an academic year at the Economic Growth Centre at Yale University, USA. He contributed a fortnightly column for 13 years on current economic issues to the Business Standard, a leading financial daily of India. Besides this, he has regularly participated in committees and other activities of industry associations, academic institutions, government agencies and civil society organizations.