C. Rangarajan

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C. Rangarajan
Chairman of the Prime Minister's Economic Advisory Council
In office August 2009 – 16 May 2014
Succeeded by	Bibek Debroy
In office 2005 – 2008
Preceded by	Suresh D. Tendulkar
Member of Rajya Sabha
In office August 2008 – August 2009
Chairman of the Twelfth Finance Commission of India
In office 2003–2004
Preceded by	A. M. Khusro
Succeeded by	Vijay Kelkar
17th Governor of Andhra Pradesh
In office 24 November 1997 – 3 January 2003
Preceded by	Krishan Kant
Succeeded by	Surjit Singh Barnala
19th Governor of Reserve Bank of India
In office 22 December 1992 – 21 November 1997
Preceded by	S. Venkitaramanan
Succeeded by	Bimal Jalan
Member of Planning Commission of Government of India
In office 21 August 1991 – 21 December 1992
Deputy Governor of Reserve Bank of India
In office 12 February 1982 – 20 August 1991
Governor	Manmohan Singh Amitav Ghosh (banker) R.N. Malhotra S. Venkitaramanan
Personal details
Political party	Independent
Alma mater	National College, Trichy University of Madras (B.A.) University of Pennsylvania (Ph.D.)
Profession	Economist Civil servant
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Chakravarthi Rangarajan (born 1932) is an Indian economist, a former Member of Parliament and 19th governor of the Reserve Bank of India. He is the former chairman of the Prime Minister's Economic Advisory Council; he resigned the day the UPA lost power. He is also the Chairman of the Madras School of Economics; former president of the Indian Statistical Institute; the founding chairman of the CR Rao Advanced Institute of Mathematics, Statistics and Computer Science; former chancellor of the University of Hyderabad; and a professor in Ahmedabad University.^[1]