Just a Mercenary?

Duvvuri Subbarao served as governor of the Reserve Bank of India for five years (2008-13). Prior to that he was finance secretary to the Government of India (2007-08) and secretary to the prime minister’s Economic Advisory Council (2005-07). Topping the civil services examination in 1972 Subbarao joined the Indian Administrative Service (IAS). In a career spanning thirty-five years he held various positions at the state level in the Government of Andhra Pradesh and at the central level in the Government of India. He was a lead economist in the World Bank for over five years (1999-2004). After stepping down from the Reserve Bank of India in 2013 Subbarao was a Visiting Fellow first at the National University of Singapore and later at the University of Pennsylvania. He is currently visiting faculty at the Kautilya School of Public Policy in Hyderabad and at Yale University in the US.