Rakesh Mohan is senior fellow at the Jackson Institute for Global Affairs, Yale University, and distinguished fellow at Brookings India.
He has been closely associated with the Indian economic reforms process from the late 1980s. He was executive director on the board of the International Monetary Fund, deputy governor of the Reserve Bank of India, secretary, Economic Affairs, and chief economic adviser of the Indian Ministry of Finance.
He has chaired a number of influential policy committees of the Government of India on infrastructure; he also chaired international committees for the G20 and BIS/CGFS on the strengthening of financial regulation and on capital flows.
He has authored various books on urban economics, urban development, economic reforms and monetary policy, including Monetary Policy in a Globalized Economy: A Practitioner's View (2009) and Growth with Financial Stability: Central Banking in an Emerging Market (2011).
India Transformed is a timely, authoritative and policy-relevant volume that sheds light on India’s dramatic changes over the past quarter century.