Biography of Urjit Patel | Early Life and Educational Background - IMF and Deputy Governor of RBI - Post-Governorship Resignation of Urjit Patel
Biography of Urjit Patel: Urjit Patel is an Indian economist who served as the 24th Governor of the Reserve Bank of India from 2016 to 2018. He was also the Deputy Governor of the Reserve Bank of India, looking after monetary policy, economic research, financial markets, statistics and information management. Patel was born in Nairobi, Kenya on October 28, 1963, to Manjula and Ravindra Patel. His grandfather had migrated from Mahudha village in Kheda district, Gujarat to Kenya in the 20th century. He studied at the London School of Economics for a Bachelor of Science degree in 1984. He obtained an M.Phil. degree from University of Oxford in 1986. He was conferred a Ph.D. in economics from Yale University in 1990. After obtaining his Ph.D., Patel joined the International Monetary Fund (IMF) in 1990, where he worked on the US, India, Bahamas and Myanmar desks till 1995. Thereafter he went on deputation from the IMF to the Reserve Bank of India (RBI), where he played an advis...