New Delhi: Former Reserve Bank of India Governor Urjit Patel has been appointed as executive director at the International Monetary Fund, a government statement showed on Friday.
Patel has been appointed for a period of three years.
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He took over as the RBI governor from Raghuram Rajan in September 2016 and resigned from the post in December 2018, citing personal reasons.
The resignation came after a prolonged public spat between the RBI and Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s government.
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