Raghuram Rajan is in the race for the Bank of England’s top job, according to
the Financial Times. “Attracting Rajan, the highly respected Chicago-based economist and former Reserve Bank of India governor, would be a coup,” the newspaper writes. The BoE is open to the idea of a non-British appointment: the present governor Mark Carney is a Canadian. Shriti Vadera, a British politician and investment banker of Indian descent, is also seen as a potential contender. Rajan
has the distinction of predicting the 2009 global financial crisis.
