Urjit Patel

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Urjit Patel
Chairman of National Institute of Public Finance and Policy
Incumbent
Assumed office 19 June 2020
24th Governor of the Reserve Bank of India
In office 4 September 2016 – 10 December 2018
Preceded by	Raghuram Rajan
Succeeded by	Shaktikanta Das
Deputy Governor of Reserve Bank of India
In office 11 January 2013 - 4 September 2016
Governor	Duvvuri Subbarao Raghuram Rajan
Succeeded by	Viral Acharya
Personal details
Born	Urjit Ravindra Patel (1963-10-28) 28 October 1963 (age 60) Nairobi, British Kenya
Nationality	Kenyan (1963–2013) Indian (2013–present)
Alma mater	London School of Economics (BSc) Linacre College, Oxford (M.Phil.) Yale University (Ph.D.)
Profession	Economist
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Urjit Patel (born 28 October 1963) is a Kenyan-born Indian economist, who formerly served as the 24th Governor of the Reserve Bank of India and also Deputy Governor of Reserve Bank of India, looking after monetary policy, economic research, financial markets, statistics and information management. He resigned from his post on 10 December 2018, being the first RBI governor to state personal reasons as a driving factor for resigning.

Urjit currently serves as Chairman of National Institute of Public Finance and Policy, additional director of Britannia Industries and independent director of John Cockerill India.