Urjit Patel Appointed New RBI Governor - List of Governors of RBI

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Deputy Governor of the RBI Urjit Patel has been appointed as the 24th Governor of the Reserve Bank of India. Urjit Patel, who was in-charge of RBI's monetary

policy, will replace Raghuram Rajan, who vacates office on September 4, 2016. The 52-year-old had studied at Oxford and Yale Universities and also served as an advisor to the Boston Consulting Group. Here is the list of Governors of RBI since its establishment in 1st April, 1935.

List of Governors of RBI

	Name of RBI Governor
	Osborne Smith	April 1, 1935	June 30, 1937
	James Braid Taylor	July 1, 1937	February 17, 1943
	C. D. Deshmukh	August 11, 1943	June 30, 1949
	Benegal Rama Rau	July 1, 1949	January 14, 1957
	K. G. Ambegaonkar	January 14, 1957	February 28, 1957
	H. V. R. Iyengar	March 1, 1957	February 28, 1962
	P. C. Bhattacharya	March 1, 1962	June 30, 1967
		July 1, 1967	May 3, 1970
	B. N. Adarkar	May 4, 1970	June 15, 1970
	S. Jagannathan	June 16, 1970	May 19, 1975
	N. C. Sen Gupta	May 19, 1975	August 19, 1975
	K. R. Puri	August 20, 1975	May 2, 1977
	M. Narasimham	May 3, 1977	November 30, 1977
	I. G. Patel	December 1, 1977	September 15, 1982
	Manmohan Singh	September 16, 1982	January 14, 1985
	Amitav Ghosh	January 15, 1985	February 4, 1985
	R. N. Malhotra	February 4, 1985	December 22, 1990
	S. Venkitaramanan	December 22, 1990	December 21, 1992
	C. Rangarajan	December 22, 1992	November 21, 1997
	Bimal Jalan	November 22, 1997	September 6, 2003
	Y. V. Reddy	September 6, 2003	September 5, 2008
	D. Subbarao	September 5, 2008	September 4, 2013
	Raghuram Rajan	September 4, 2013	September 4, 2016
	Urjit Patel	September 4, 2016

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