Charan Singh
Professor
Marketing
Indian Institute of Management Bangalore
India
Biography
Dr. Charan Singh is full time visiting faculty and former RBI Chair Professor (Dec 2012 to Dec 2016) at the Indian Institute of Management Bangalore, India where he teaches comparative monetary policy; and policy issues on Indian economy. Earlier, he was a Senior Economist at the Independent Evaluation Office of the International Monetary Fund, Washington DC from Aug 2009 to Nov 2012 and Research Director (Departments: Economic Policy; Debt Management) at the RBI from 1997–2009 where he had joined in 1984 as a Research officer in the Economic Policy Department. Singh earned his doctorate in Economics from the University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia and was a visiting scholar for more than a year each at Department of Economics, Harvard University and the Stanford Center for International Development, Stanford University.
Research Interest
Professor Singh’s research areas include Monetary, Fiscal, Debt Management, International Reserves, Financial Markets, Banking, and Infrastructure. His research is published in journals like the Economic and Political Weekly, Indian Journal of Economics, Prajnan, RBI Occasional Papers, Indian Journal of Economics and Business, Yojana, etc.
