MUMBAI: Former Reserve Bank of India Deputy Governor Dr Subir Vithal Gokarn (60) passed away on Tuesday after a brief illness. He was the RBI Deputy Governor from 2009-12 and oversaw Monetary Policy Research and Financial Markets department.
“I share this with a heavy heart...Subir Gokarn, my friend and colleague, passed away a few hours back,” Shamika Ravi, a member of Prime Minister’s Economic Advisory Council and a research director with Brookings India tweeted late on Tuesday night where Dr Gokarn was also a research director.
He was appointed by the Narendra Modi government as Executive Director on the board of the IMF in November 2015. Gokarn also served as the Chief Economist of Standard & Poor’s Asia-Pacific between 2007-09) and was Executive Director and Chief Economist of CRISIL from 2002 to 2007.
He was also associated with the National Council of Applied Economic Research (NCAER) as chief economist and was a Associate Professor at the Indira Gandhi Institute of Development Research in Mumbai from 1991-2000.
He had a Master’s Degree in Economics from the Delhi School of Economics and received a doctorate in Economics from Case Western Reserve University, USA in 1989.
Source: economictimes.indiatimes.com