Sanjay Malhotra has become the new Governor of the Reserve Bank of India (RBI), the government announced today.
After graduating in Computer Science from the Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur in 1989, Malhotra did his Masters in Public Policy from Princeton University in the US.
It was in 1990 when UPSC cracked CSE and became Indian Administrative Service Officer of Rajasthan Cadre. In a career of 33 years, he has worked in various fields including electricity, finance and taxation, information technology, mining.
IIT Kanpur
Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur is one of the Institutes of National Importance recognized by the Government of India. In the engineering category under the National Institutional Ranking Framework (NIRF) 2024, the institute is ranked four. Also, the ranking is 5th in the overall category, 7th in the research category and 30th in the management category.
Not only the national recognition, the QS World University Ranking 2024 also placed the institute at 263rd position among the top colleges in the world.
Princeton University
Founded in 1746 as the College of New Jersey, later named Princeton University, it was the fourth college founded in British North America. Under the ranking of top QS universities, it is ranked 22nd, however, in Times Higher Education, it is ranked 4th.