The next PM?

Married on September 14, 1958. Has three daughters

Educational Qualifications: M.A., D. Phil Oxford, D. Litt Honoris Causa. Educated at Universities of Panjab, Cambridge and Oxford

Positions Held:

1972-76: Chief Economic Advisor, Ministry of Finance, India

1976-80: Director, Reserve Bank of India; Director, Industrial Development Bank of India; Alternate Governor for India, Board of Governors, Asian Development Bank, Manila; Alternate Governor for India, Board of Governors, IBRD

Nov 1976-April 1980: Secretary, Ministry of Finance Department of Economic Affairs; Member, Finance, Atomic Energy Commission; Member, Finance, Space Commission

April 1980-Sept 1982: Member-Secretary, Planning Commission

Sept 1982 to Jan 1985: Governor, Reserve Bank of India

1982-85: Alternate Governor for India, Board of Governors, IMF

1983-84: Member, Economic Advisory Council to the Prime Minister

Jan 1985-July 1987: Deputy Chairman, Planning Commission

Aug 1987-Nov 1990: Secretary-General and Commissioner, South Commission, Geneva

Dec 1990-March 1991: Advisor to the Prime Minister of India on Economic Affairs

March 1991-June 1991: Chairman, UGC

June 1991-May 1996: Union Finance Minister

Oct 1991: Elected to Rajya Sabha

1991-95: Governor for India on the Board of Governors of the IMF and the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development

June 1995: Re-elected to Rajya Sabha

1996 onwards: Member, Consultative Committee for the Ministry of Finance

Aug 1996-Dec 1997: Chairman, Parliamentary Standing Committee on Commerce

March 1998 onwards: Leader of the Opposition, Rajya Sabha

June 2001: Re-elected to Rajya Sabha

Aug 2001 onwards: Member, General Purposes Committee

8226; Author of a book entitled India8217;s Export Trends and Prospects for Self-Sustained Growth, Clarendon Press, Oxford University, 1964

Accomplishments:

8226; Wright8217;s Prize for distinguished performance at St John8217;s College, Cambridge, 1955 and 1957

8226; Adam Smith Prize, University of Cambridge, UK, 1956

8226; Padma Vibhushan, 1987

8226; Euromoney Award, Finance Minister of the Year, 1993

8226; Asiamoney Award, Finance Minister of the Year for Asia, 1993 and 1994

Other Information:

8226; Professor, i Economics, Panjab University, Chandigarh, 1963-65 and ii International Trade, Delhi School of Economics, University of Delhi, 1969-71;

8226; Honorary Professor, i Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, 1976, and ii Delhi School of Economics, University of Delhi, 1996