Former RBI Governor and Finance Secretary of India Dr D Subbarao has been appointed as a distinguished Visiting fellow at the National University of Singapore (NUS) Business school. His appointment got effective from May 2, 2014. It will be one year tenure with his new assignment which will see his active participation in various activities at NUS B School, at the Institute of South Asian Studies (ISAS), and the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS).
He is expected to share his well tested and experienced deep insights on various aspects of monetary system and finance through seminars, lectures, workshops and meetings with policymakers, academia, students and the business community. Dr Subbarao will be delivering a series of lectures on central banking challenges co-sponsored by the MAS. While three lectures will be held at the NUS B School on May 30, one will be at MAS on June 2, 2014.
Speaking on the occasion Prof Bernard Yeung said “We are deeply honoured to welcome Dr Subbarao to NUS Business School, one of Asia’s leading business schools. As former Governor of RBI and Finance Secretary, Dr Subbarao led India through some of the most challenging times in the country’s economic development. I am confident that our faculty members, students and community will benefit immensely from his insights and knowledge. We look forward to his lectures,”
Dr Duvvuri Subba Rao, an alumnus of IIT Kanpur, is the topper of IAS 1972 batch. He is an MS in Economics from Ohio State University and was a Humphrey Fellow at MIT in 1982-83. Subbarao received a Doctorate Ph.D. in Economics from the Andhra University in 1998. He did research in Fiscal reforms at the sub-national level.
He was lead economist with World Bank from 1994 to 2004. Then he served as the Secretary, Department of Economic Affairs in the Ministry of Finance and later as the Finance Secretary in the Ministry of Finance from 2005 to 2007. He became Governor of Reserve bank of India in 2008 and effected substantial changes in monetary policy to improve the economic growth rate to 7.4% in 2010. His vast experience on issues of Public finance and monetary system would be reflected in his one year association with NUS B school.
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Vanke CEO Mr Wang also appointed at NUS
Along the line of fulfilling the passion for academics, Mr Wang Shi, chairman and founder of China’s top real estate firm, Vanke has also been appointed at NUS as practice track professor. Mr Wang Shi is a visiting scholar at Harvard. Wang was named as one of the “Fifteen Business leaders who have changed China,” by Fortune magazine in 2011.
Mr Wang now turned Prof Wang is an avid trekker. He has climbed the Mount Everest twice, and has ventured to the North and South Poles. His principle is “When you take risks like these, you care more about life as you’re already prepared to face death.”
Prof Wang has a global vision for environmental sustainability. He made that choice at a time when there were no government incentives or subsidies. To fulfill his vision about Vanke’s “green revolution” he preferred to invest heavily in R&D for prefabrication techniques in an effort to reduce timber consumption and comply with higher green standards.
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