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Raghuram Rajan
Former Governor of the Reserve Bank of India & Former Chief Economist of the IMF | Professor at the University of Chicago | Economist Who Predicted the 2008 Crisis
Raghuram Rajan is one of the world's most respected economists, the former Governor of the Reserve Bank of India and former IMF Chief Economist. He famously warned of the risks building in the global financial system three years before the 2008 crisis, a prescient call on financial stability. A University of Chicago professor and award-winning author of Fault Lines, he gives audiences rare clarity on the global economy, finance, and India.
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Raghuram Rajan biography
Economics speaker Raghuram Rajan is one of the most respected and influential economists in the world, a former central bank governor, a former chief economist of the International Monetary Fund, and the professor famous for seeing the 2008 financial crisis coming when almost no one else did. Few people combine his depth as a scholar with his experience at the very center of global finance and economic policymaking, and fewer still can explain the forces shaping the world economy with such clarity and independence of mind.
In 2005, at the Federal Reserve’s Jackson Hole conference, Rajan delivered a now-famous warning about the growing risks in the global financial system, an analysis dismissed by some at the time and vindicated three years later by the global financial crisis. He went on to distill those insights into Fault Lines: How Hidden Fractures Still Threaten the World Economy, which won the Financial Times and Goldman Sachs Business Book of the Year Award. As Chief Economist of the IMF from 2003 to 2006, a role he took on at just forty, he had already established himself as one of the field’s leading voices.
From the IMF to the Reserve Bank of India
From 2013 to 2016, Rajan served as the 23rd Governor of the Reserve Bank of India, where he is widely credited with taming high inflation, stabilizing the rupee during a period of crisis, and beginning to clean up the banking system, while also serving as Vice-Chairman of the Bank for International Settlements. Today he is the Katherine Dusak Miller Distinguished Service Professor of Finance at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business, chairs the Group of Thirty, and is the author of several influential books, including The Third Pillar and, most recently, Breaking the Mold, on the future of India’s economy.
As a speaker, Raghuram Rajan is brilliant, measured, and refreshingly independent, giving audiences an honest, big-picture assessment rather than easy reassurance. He speaks on the global economic outlook, financial stability and the lessons of past crises, inflation and monetary policy, the future of India and emerging markets, and the tensions between markets, the state, and society that will shape the decade ahead. Audiences of executives, investors, and policymakers leave with a deeper, more independent understanding of the risks and opportunities defining the global economy.
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Raghuram Rajan Keynote Topics
Drawing on his experience as a central bank governor, IMF chief economist, and the analyst who saw the 2008 crisis coming, Raghuram Rajan gives audiences an authoritative, independent read on the global economy. He examines growth, inflation, interest rates, and debt, and where the real vulnerabilities in the financial system lie today. Measured and jargon-free, he helps leaders and investors understand not just the consensus view but the risks the consensus is missing, essential insight for planning in an uncertain world.
In 2005, Raghuram Rajan stood before the world's top central bankers at Jackson Hole and warned of the dangers building in the financial system, and was largely dismissed. Three years later, he was proven right. In this compelling keynote, he shares how he saw the crisis coming, why institutions and incentives blind us to systemic risk, and how leaders can learn to spot the "fault lines" forming beneath the surface of their own industries and economies. A masterclass in independent thinking and risk.
As the former Governor of the Reserve Bank of India and the author of Breaking the Mold, Rajan is one of the most authoritative voices on India's economy and the emerging world. He explores India's extraordinary opportunity and its challenges, the forces reshaping emerging markets, and what global businesses and investors need to understand about the shift of economic weight toward Asia. A clear-eyed, insider's perspective on some of the most consequential growth stories of the century.
Drawing on his acclaimed book The Third Pillar, Rajan argues that healthy societies depend on balancing three pillars, markets, the state, and community, and that much of today's political and economic turmoil stems from that balance breaking down. He explores how globalization and technology have weakened local communities, why that fuels populism and polarization, and what businesses and governments can do to build a more inclusive and sustainable form of capitalism. A profound, big-picture keynote on the forces reshaping our world.
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Why Raghuram Rajan?
Booking Raghuram Rajan brings audiences one of the world's most respected and independent economic minds. As a former Governor of the Reserve Bank of India, a former IMF chief economist, and the professor who famously predicted the 2008 financial crisis, he offers a rare combination of scholarly depth and real-world experience at the highest levels of global finance and policymaking. Measured, candid, and refreshingly free of spin, he gives audiences an honest assessment of the global economy rather than easy reassurance, on financial stability, inflation, India and emerging markets, and the future of capitalism. He is ideal for events in economics, finance, global affairs, and business strategy. To bring Raghuram Rajan to your next event, contact Aurum Speakers Bureau.
Who is Raghuram Rajan?
Raghuram Rajan is an Indian economist and one of the world's most influential voices on finance and the global economy. He is the Katherine Dusak Miller Distinguished Service Professor of Finance at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business, and previously served as the 23rd Governor of the Reserve Bank of India (2013-2016), Chief Economist and Director of Research at the International Monetary Fund (2003-2006, the youngest to hold the role), Chief Economic Adviser to the Government of India, and Vice-Chairman of the Bank for International Settlements. He is best known for warning of the 2008 global financial crisis years before it happened, and for his award-winning book Fault Lines. He also chairs the Group of Thirty and is the author of The Third Pillar, Saving Capitalism from the Capitalists, and Breaking the Mold.
Did Raghuram Rajan predict the 2008 financial crisis?
Yes. In 2005, at the Federal Reserve's prestigious Jackson Hole conference, Raghuram Rajan, then the IMF's chief economist, presented a paper warning that developments in the financial system had raised the risk of a serious crisis. He argued that incentives were encouraging banks and financial institutions to take on excessive, hidden risks. At the time, his warning was controversial and largely dismissed by many prominent economists and policymakers. When the global financial crisis struck in 2008, his analysis was widely seen as prescient, and he was extensively featured in the Oscar-winning documentary Inside Job. He expanded on the underlying causes in his acclaimed 2010 book Fault Lines: How Hidden Fractures Still Threaten the World Economy, which won the Financial Times and Goldman Sachs Business Book of the Year Award.
What topics does economics speaker Raghuram Rajan cover?
Raghuram Rajan speaks on the global economic outlook and financial stability, the lessons of the 2008 crisis and how to spot systemic risk, inflation and monetary policy, the future of India and emerging markets, and the balance between markets, the state, and society explored in his book The Third Pillar. His keynotes suit events in economics, finance, global affairs, and business strategy, for corporate, financial, and investor audiences. To book Raghuram Rajan as a speaker, contact Aurum Speakers Bureau.
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