Dr. Subir Gokarn, Deputy Governor, Reserve Bank of India
Dr. Subir Gokarn is Deputy Governor of the Reserve Bank of India, overseeing Monetary Policy, Research, Financial Markets, Communications and Deposit Insurance. He also represents the Reserve Bank at the G-20 Deputies’ forum.
Prior to joining the Reserve Bank in November 2009, Dr. Gokarn 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 contributed a fortnightly column on current economic issues to the Business Standard for 13 years. Besides this, he has regularly participated in committees and other activities of industry associations, academic institutions, government agencies and civil society organizations.
Dr. Gokarn graduated from St. Xavier’s College, Mumbai, with a B.A. (Hons.) in Economics (1979) and from the Delhi School of Economics with an M.A. in Economics (1981). He received a Ph.D 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.