Urjit Patel

Urjit R. Patel served as the twenty-fourth governor of the Reserve Bank of India. During his tenure he was a director of the Bank for International Settlements and a member of the Advisory Board of the Financial Stability Institute. 

Before his governorship, he was the Deputy Governor in charge of monetary policy and chaired a committee on strengthening monetary policy. From 2013 to 2018 he was principal/deputy in the G-20 and BRICS Finance Ministers’ and Central Bank Governors’ groups. 

Earlier, he worked with Reliance Industries and Infrastructure Development Finance Company. He has been a consultant to the Indian Ministry of Finance and a non-resident senior fellow of the Brookings Institution, Washington, D.C. He was awarded the Willbur Cross Medal by Yale University in 2019. He is an Honorary Fellow of Linacre College, Oxford. He lives in Mumbai.