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| office = Chairman of the Prime Minister's [[Economic Advisory Council]]
| term = August 2009 – 16 May 2014
| successor = [[Bibek Debroy]]
| term1 = 2005 – 2008
| predecessor1 = [[Suresh Tendulkar]]
| office2 = [[Member of Parliament (India)|Member of Rajya Sabha]]
| term_start2 = August 2008
| term_end2 = August 2009
| office3 = Chairman of the [[Twelfth Finance Commission]] of India
| term_start3 = 2003
| term_end3 = 2004
| predecessor3 = [[A. M. Khusro]]
| successor3 = [[Vijay Kelkar]]
| office4 = 16th [[List of governors of Andhra Pradesh|Governor of Andhra Pradesh]]
| term_start4 = 24 November 1997
| term_end4 = 3 January 2003
| predecessor4 = [[Krishan Kant]]
| successor4 = [[Surjit Singh Barnala]]
| office5 = 19th [[Governors of the Reserve Bank of India|Governor of Reserve Bank of India]]
| term_start5 = 22 December 1992
| term_end5 = 21 November 1997
| predecessor5 = [[S. Venkitaramanan]]
| successor5 = [[Bimal Jalan]]
| office6 = Member of [[Planning Commission (India)|Planning Commission]] of [[Government of India]]
| term_start6 = 21 August 1991
| term_end6 = 21 December 1992
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| office7 = Deputy Governor of [[Reserve Bank of India]]
| term_start7 = 12 February 1982
| term_end7 = 20 August 1991
| governor7 = [[Manmohan Singh]] [[Amitav Ghosh (banker)]] [[R.N. Malhotra]] [[S. Venkitaramanan]]
| profession = [[Economist]] [[Civil servant]]
| party = [[Independent (politician)|Independent]]
| alma_mater = {{nowrap|[[National College, Tiruchirappalli|National College, Trichy]] [[University of Madras]] ([[Bachelor of Arts|B.A.]]) [[University of Pennsylvania]] ([[Ph.D.]])}}
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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 [[United Progressive Alliance|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]].<ref>{{cite web |title=Notification |url=http://www.uohyd.ac.in/images/pdf/chancellor_notif_080415.pdf |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230712191455/https://uohyd.ac.in/images/pdf/chancellor_notif_080415.pdf |url-status=dead |archive-date=12 July 2023 |date=8 April 2015 |publisher=University of Hyderabad: Office of the Registrar |access-date=18 May 2015 }}</ref>

==Early life==
Rangarajan, a student of National College ([[Tiruchirappalli]]) between 1947 and 1949, graduated from [[Loyola College, Chennai|Loyola College]] of the [[University of Madras]] in the commerce stream (where he was a contemporary of the [[Yale University]] economics professor [[T N Srinivasan]]). He later received his PhD in economics from the [[University of Pennsylvania]] in 1964. His thesis was titled "Variability of Demand Deposits.<ref>{{cite book|title=Variability of Demand Deposits|oclc=244986124}}</ref> He is a native of Vaduvur, a tiny village near [[Thanjavur]].

==Career==
Rangarajan taught at several institutions including the [[University of Pennsylvania]] and the [[Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad]] (IIM-A). He was a well known teacher of economics at IIMA for the postgraduate and the doctoral courses. His textbook on macro economics was used in business management schools.<ref>{{cite book |title=Principles of Macroeconomics|publisher=Tata McGraw-Hill Education|year=2001 |isbn= 978-0-07-096581-2 |first=Chakravarthi |last=Rangarajan|author2=Dholakia, B}}</ref>
He was awarded the title of Honorary Fellow of IIM-A in 1997.{{Citation needed|date= December 2024|reason=source needed to verify}}

He served as a deputy governor of the Reserve Bank of India from 1982 to 1991, after which he served as the governor of the [[Reserve Bank of India]] between 22 December 1992 and 21 December 1997.{{Citation needed|date= December 2024|reason=source needed to verify}}

He served as the [[governor of Andhra Pradesh]] from 24 November 1997 to 3 January 2003. After demitting that office, he took charge as the chairman of the Twelfth Finance Commission.{{Citation needed|date= December 2024|reason=source needed to verify}} While serving as the governor of Andhra Pradesh, he received additional charges as governor of [[Odisha]] from 1998 to 1999, and as governor of [[Tamil Nadu]] from 2001 to 2002.<ref>{{cite web |title=List of Honourable Governors as of 12/11/2016 |url=http://odishaassembly.nic.in/statisticsmembers.aspx?x=1 |year=2016 |website=Official Web Site of Odisha Legislative Assembly |access-date=12 November 2016}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal |title=Bio - Data of Governors of Orissa |url=http://orissa.gov.in/e-magazine/orissaannualreference/OR-Annual-2009/pdf/405-418.pdf |date=2009 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131219030651/http://orissa.gov.in/e-magazine/orissaannualreference/OR-Annual-2009/pdf/405-418.pdf |archive-date=19 December 2013 |journal=Orissa Reference Annual - 2009 |publisher=[[Government of Odisha]] |access-date=18 May 2015}}</ref>

In 2002, the [[Government of India]] awarded him the [[Padma Vibhushan]], India's second highest civilian award.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.dashboard-padmaawards.gov.in/?Award=Padma%20Vibhushan&Year=2002-2002|title=Padma Awards {{!}} Interactive Dashboard|website=www.dashboard-padmaawards.gov.in|language=en|access-date=2018-10-12|archive-date=12 October 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181012140258/http://www.dashboard-padmaawards.gov.in/?Award=Padma%20Vibhushan&Year=2002-2002|url-status=dead}}</ref> Academy of Grassroots Studies and Research of India (AGRASRI), Tirupati, awarded him the Rajiv Gandhi Outstanding Leadership National Award for the year 2008 on 20 August, 2008 at Tirupati. He delivered the 7th Rajiv Gandhi Memorial Lecture on 20 August, 2008 at Tirupati.

From 2005 to 2008, he was the chairman of the [[Economic Advisory Council|Prime Minister's Economic Advisory Council]]. In August 2008, he resigned as chairman of the council and was nominated as a member of the Rajya Sabha.<ref>{{cite web
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</ref> He resigned from the Rajya Sabha in August 2009 and was re-appointed chairman of the Prime Minister's Economic Advisory Council. He resigned from the Council on 19 May 2014, when the UPA government was voted out of power. Since then, he has been the chairman of the [[Madras School of Economics]] and has been writing and publishing on issues pertaining to the economy.{{Citation needed|date= December 2024|reason=source needed to verify}}

In May 2020, the Tamil Nadu government formed a high-level committee, chaired by Rangarajan, to advise the government on the medium-term response after the COVID-19 lockdown period. The committee submitted its report in September 2020, recommending an urban jobs guarantee program, similar to the state's rural one, and expressing optimism about the economy's ability to rebound in two months' time.<ref>{{cite news |title=Tamil Nadu's economy to revive to pre-Covid-19 period in two months: Former RBI Governor C Rangarajan |url=https://www.newindianexpress.com/states/tamil-nadu/2020/sep/22/tamil-nadus-economy-to-revive-to-pre-covid-19-period-in-two-months-former-rbi-governor-c-rangarajan-2200330.html |date=22 September 2020 |newspaper=[[The New Indian Express]] |agency=[[Press Trust of India]] |access-date=4 December 2020}}</ref>

==References==
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==External links==
* [http://rspas.anu.edu.au/asarc/narayanan_speaker.php?searchterm=2001 A brief note on C. Rangarajan] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070831070725/http://rspas.anu.edu.au/asarc/narayanan_speaker.php?searchterm=2001 |date=31 August 2007 }}
* [http://www.thehindubusinessline.com/bline/2003/01/04/stories/2003010402370500.htm Rangarajan joins finance panel]
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20070416001033/http://fincomindia.nic.in/drcrangarajan.htm Dr.C.Rangarajan, Chairman Twelfth Finance Commission]
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20150317050907/http://www.rbi.org.in/History/Mis_Governors.html Governors of the Reserve Bank of India]
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20110721172852/http://pmindia.nic.in/eacbody.htm Economic Advisory Council]

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