well this is some details about a great economist of our country can
you guess who it is (if you cant the answer is at the last but do try
to jog your brain for an answer and you do know it)
EDUCATION /Qualification:
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 /Teaching Experience:
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
Working Experience/ 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
Euro money Award, Finance
Minister of the Year, 1993;
Asia money
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
Name: Dr Manmohan Singh
DOB: September 26, 1932
Place of Birth: Gah (West Punjab)
Father: S. Gurmukh Singh
Mother: Mrs Amrit Kaur
Married on: September 14,
1958
Wife: Mrs Gursharan Kaur
Children: Three daughters
Our Prime Minister seems to be the most qualified PM all over the
world.