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Urijit Patel, an adviser in the Boston Consulting Group, has been appointed as the deputy governor of the Reserve Bank of India, banking secretary DK Mittal said today.
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Economist and public finance expert Urjit R Patel has replaced Subir Gokarn who left office on December 31 after a three-year term and a one-month extension.
Gokarn was heading the monetary policy department, among others.
Patel is currently a non-resident senior fellow at the Brookings Institution, a US-based think tank, and adviser to the Boston Consulting Group.
Kalpana Kochhar,World Bank’s South Asia chief economist, had also been shortlisted for the post.
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