Viral Acharya appointed as new deputy governor of the Reserve Bank of India
Posted on: 29/Dec/2016 11:12:21 AM
New York University’s Professor Viral Acharya has been appointed as new deputy governor of the Reserve Bank of India.
After the elevation of Urjit Patel as RBI governor, the post of deputy governor was lying vacant. Now Viral Acharya has been appointed as new deputy governor
Acharya is the C V Starr professor of economics at New York University`s Stern School of Business and earlier taught at London Business School.
An Indian-born, post-liberalization professional, Acharya went to college in the year in which Manmohan Singh delivered his epochal budget speech of 1991. He stood fifth in the joint entrance exam of the Indian Institute of Technology, Mumbai and went on to graduate in computer science. After graduation he moved to the US where he pursued a Ph.D in computer science for a year before deciding to shift gears to finance. He obtained his doctorate in finance.
