Professor in the Practice of International Economics and Finance & Senior Fellow of the Jackson Institute

Professor Mohan has researched extensively in the areas of economic reforms and liberalization, industrial economics, urban economics, infrastructure studies, economic regulation, monetary policy, and the financial sector. He is the author of three books on urban economics and urban development.

Prior to Yale SOM, Mohan served as deputy governor of the Reserve Bank of India where he was in charge of monetary policy, financial markets, economic research and statistics. He visited Stanford University in 2009 as distinguished consulting professor. He also served as secretary of the department of economic affairs in the Ministry of Finance, Government of India. He has recently been appointed chairman of the high level national transport development policy committee by the Indian Prime Minister with the rank of minister of state. He is non executive vice chairman of the Indian Institute of Human Settlements, and also a global adviser to McKinsey and Co.

Mohan has been a member of the economic advisory council to the prime minister of India; a member of the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India; a member of the National Security Advisory Board; a member of the Tariff Authority of Major Ports; and a member of the Securities and Exchange Board of India. He has also served on the Yale President’s Council on International Activities (PCIA) since 2005.

Books
Growth With Stability: Central Banking in an Emerging Market Economy, Oxford University Press, forthcoming

The Indian Economy: Performance and Prospects, (with S. Acharya, ed.), Oxford University Press, 2010

Monetary Policy in a Globalized Economy: A Practitioner’s View, Oxford University Press, 2009

Facets of the Indian Economy (edited), Oxford University Press, 2002

Policy Reform in India (With I.J. Ahluwalia and O. Goswami), OECD, 1996

Understanding the Developing Metropolis: Lessons from the City Study of Bogota and Cali, Colombi, Oxford University Press, 1994
Work, Wages and Welfare in a Developing Metropolis: Consequences of Growth in Bogota, Colombia, Oxford University Press, 1987

Urban Economic and Planning Models: Assessing the Potential for Cities in Developing Countries, Johns Hopkins University Press, 1979

Selected Papers
"Emerging Contours of Financial Regulation: Challenges and Dynamics," RBI Bulletin, 949-965, 2009

"Capital Flows to India," RBI Bulletin, 2047-2079, 2008

"The Role of Fiscal and Monetary Policies in Sustaining Growth with Stability in India," RBI Bulletin, 2081-2118, 2008 

"Financial Sector Reforms and Monetary Policy: The Indian Experience," RBI Bulletin, 773–793, 2006

Working Papers
"Liberalisation and Regulation of Capital Flows: Lessons for Emerging Market Economies"

Education
PhD Princeton University, 1977
MA Princeton University, 1974
BA Yale University, 1971
BS Imperial College of Science and Technology, 1969

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