Raghuram Rajan is an academic with substantial current and past business and policy experience. He is a professor of finance at the University of Chicago. From 2003 to 2006, he was the chief economist at the International Monetary Fund. He is currently an economic advisor to the Prime Minister of India, on the advisory board of the Comptroller and Auditor General of the United States, and on the advisory boards of a number of financial firms and consultancies. Rajan is President (elect) of the American Finance Association, a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and the inaugural winner of the Fischer Black Prize awarded to the best financial economist under 40. His past books include Saving Capitalism from the Capitalists, with Luigi Zingales.