Raghuram Rajan is the Raghuram Rajan is the Katherine Dusak Miller Distinguished Service Professor of Finance at Chicago Booth. Prior to resuming teaching, Dr. Rajan was the 23rd Governor of the Reserve Bank of India between September 2013 and September 2016. Between 2003 and 2006, Dr. Rajan was the Chief Economist and Director of Research at the International Monetary Fund.

Dr. Rajan’s research interests focus primarily on economic development, and the role finance plays in it. His papers have been published in all the top economics and finance journals, and he has served on the editorial board of the American Economic Review and the Journal of Finance. The books he has written include Breaking the Mold: India's Untraveled Path to Prosperity in 2024 with Rohit Lamba, The Third Pillar: How the State and Markets hold the Community Behind in 2019, which was a finalist for the Financial Times Business Book of the Year prize, Fault Lines: How Hidden Fractures Still Threaten the World Economy, for which he was awarded the Financial Times prize for Business Book of the Year in 2010, and Saving Capitalism from the Capitalists in 2003 with Luigi Zingales. In January 2003, the American Finance Association awarded Dr. Rajan the inaugural Fischer Black Prize, given every two years to the financial economist under age 40 who has made the most significant contribution to the theory and practice of finance.