Patel took over because the twenty fourth governor of the RBI in 2016, succeeding Raghuram Rajan. In 2018, he turned the primary RBI governor to resign as a consequence of private causes and held the put up for the shortest time period since 1992. His report additionally led to the federal government adopting 4% CPI as inflation goal.
He labored on the Worldwide Financial Fund for 5 years, first in Washington DC then got here to India in 1992 because the IMF's deputy resident consultant in New Delhi.
Previous to that, he served as a deputy governor of the central financial institution dealing with financial coverage, financial coverage analysis, statistics and data administration, deposit insurance coverage, communication and Proper to Info.
The previous RBI governor was a Guide to the Ministry of Finance from 1998 to 2001. He additionally had different assignments in private and non-private sectors, together with with Reliance Industries, IDFC Ltd, MCX Ltd and Gujarat State Petroleum Company.
Patel has a PhD in economics from Yale College, an M Phil from College of Oxford and a BSc from the College of London.