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Resume of Dr. Manmohan Singh - Prime Minister of India
Resume of Dr. Manmohan Singh, Prime Minister of India, and the original Architect of the Economic Liberlization.
Born on: September 26, 1932
Place of Birth: Gah (West Punjab)
Father: Gurmukh Singh
Mother: Amrit Kaur
Married on: September 14, 1958
Wife: Gursharan Kaur
Children: Three daughters
EDUCATION:
Stood first in BA (Hons), Economics, Panjab University, Chandigarh, 1952; stood first in MA (Economics), Panjab University, Chandigarh, 1954; Wright's Prize for distinguished performance at St John's College, Cambridge, 1955 and 1957; Wrenbury scholar, University of Cambridge, 1957; DPhil (Oxford), DLitt (Honoris Causa); PhD thesis on India's export competitiveness
OCCUPATION:
Professor (Senior lecturer, Economics, 1957-59; Reader, Economics, 1959-63; Professor, Economics, Panjab University, Chandigarh, 1963-65; Professor, International Trade, Delhi School of Economics, University of Delhi, 1969-71; Honorary professor, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, 1976 and Delhi School of Economics, University of Delhi, 1996) and Civil Servant
POSITIONS:
1971-72: Economic advisor, ministry of foreign trade
1972-76: Chief economic advisor, ministry of finance
1976-80: Director, Reserve Bank of India; Director, Industrial Development Bank of India; Alternate governor for India, Board of governors, Asian Development Bank; Alternate governor for India, Board of governors, IBRD
November 1976 - April 1980: Secretary, ministry of finance (department of economic affairs); Member, finance, Atomic Energy Commission; Member, finance, Space Commission
April 1980 - September 15, 1982 : Member-secretary, Planning Commission
1980-83: Chairman, India Committee of the Indo-Japan joint study committee September 16, 1982 - January 14, 1985: Governor, Reserve Bank of India
1982-85: Alternate Governor for India, Board of governors, International Monetary Fund
1983-84: Member, economic advisory council to the Prime Minister
1985: President, Indian Economic Association
January 15, 1985 - July 31, 1987 : Deputy chairman, Planning Commission
August 1, 1987 - November 10, 1990 : Secretary-general and commissioner, south commission, Geneva
December 10, 1990 - March 14, 1991 : Advisor to the Prime Minister on economic affairs
March 15, 1991 - June 20, 1991 : Chairman, UGC
June 21, 1991 - May 15, 1996 : Union finance minister
October 1991: Elected to Rajya Sabha from Assam on Congress ticket
June 1995: Re-elected to Rajya Sabha
1996 onwards: Member, Consultative Committee for the ministry of finance
August 1, 1996 - December 4, 1997 : Chairman, Parliamentary standing committee on commerce
March 21, 1998 onwards: Leader of the Opposition, Rajya Sabha
June 5, 1998 onwards: Member, committee on finance
August 13, 1998 onwards: Member, committee on rules
Aug 1998-2001: Member, committee of privileges 2000 onwards: Member, executive committee, Indian parliamentary group
June 2001: Re-elected to Rajya Sabha
Aug 2001 onwards: Member, general purposes committee
BOOKS:
India's Export Trends and Prospects for Self-Sustained Growth ? Clarendon Press, Oxford University, 1964; also published a large number of articles in various economic journals.
OTHER ACCOMPLISHMENTS:
Adam Smith Prize, University of Cambridge, 1956
Padma Vibhushan, 1987
Euromoney Award, Finance Minister of the Year, 1993;
Asiamoney Award, Finance Minister of the Year for Asia, 1993 and 1994
INTERNATIONAL ASSIGNMENTS:
1966: Economic Affairs Officer
1966-69: Chief, financing for trade section, UNCTAD
1972-74: Deputy for India in IMF Committee of Twenty on International Monetary Reform
1977-79: Indian delegation to Aid-India Consortium Meetings
1980-82: Indo-Soviet joint planning group meeting
1982: Indo-Soviet monitoring group meeting
1993: Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting Cyprus 1993: Human Rights World Conference, Vienna
RECREATION:
Gymkhana Club, New Delhi; Life Member, India International Centre, New Delhi
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India News > Manmohan Singh was a loner at Oxford - May 21, 2004
India News > Manmohan Singh was a loner at Oxford
Oxford, May 21 (IANS) :
Dons at Oxford University remember Prime Minister-designate Manmohan Singh for his quiet nature, hard work and brilliance in producing a thesis on India's exports as a student in the early 1960s.
Singh studied for a DPhil in Economics at Nuffield College between 1960 and 1962. He has been an Honorary Fellow of the college since 1994.
Dr Ian Little, who was Singh's college supervisor, told IANS: "I am fairly surprised about his taking over as the prime minister. When he was here he was very quiet, not the sort who make great politicians."
Singh's other supervisor was Nobel laureate, Sir John Hicks.
Dr Little, who has published academic work on India's economic reforms, said that as a student, Singh was "very diligent, hard working and ended up with an excellent thesis".
"He did not mix a great deal with other students. He was somewhat of a loner," Little said.
According to him, even though he was Singh's supervisor, he learnt from him rather than the other way round, about India's export sector.
In the early 1960s, convention wisdom was that the reason for India's sluggish export was factors external to India. But Singh produced a "convincing case" in his thesis to show that the reason for this lay within India, with New Delhi's policies.
"I certainly learnt that from him," Little said, and added that his thesis was later published as a book.
As a student, did Singh ever go pubbing - a popular activity of university students in Britain?
"Not that I know of. He was not very social; in fact he was notable for not being very social," Dr Little said.
He said he had remained in touch with Singh and had met him periodically during his tenure as the finance minister in the P.V. Narasimha Rao government.
"It has been a huge surprise that the Congress got back to power. I expected him to be the finance minister again, but prime minister? I am fairly surprised with that," Dr Little said.
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