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| Dr. Rakesh Mohan [FILE PHOTO] |
New Delhi/Washington: Dr. Rakesh Mohan has assumed charge as Executive Director on
the Board of the International Monetary Fund (IMF). In addition to India, Dr.
Mohan will also be representing three other countries in the constituency, viz.
Bangladesh, Sri Lanka and Bhutan on the Board of the IMF.
Dr. Mohan was earlier
Deputy Governor of the Reserve Bank of India and also Secretary in the
Department of Economic Affairs, Government of India. He has also been the
Chairman of National Transport Development Policy Committee and of the High
Level Committee on the Financing of Infrastructure.
Prior to assuming his
duties at the IMF, Dr Mohan was Professor in the Practice of International
Economics and Finance at the School of Management and Senior Fellow at the
Jackson Institute for Global Affairs at Yale University.
The term of Dr.
Rakesh Mohan at the IMF will be for a period of three years.