Dr.Charan Singh has earlier served as the Non-Executive Chairman of Punjab & Sind Bank from May 2018 to May 2021. Earlier, he was the RBI Chair Professor of Economics at the Indian Institute of Management Bangalore, India where, amongst other subjects, he taught comparative monetary policy and policy issues
He served as Senior Economist at the Independent Evaluation Office of the International Monetary Fund, Washington DC from August 2009 to November 2012. He was the Research Director (Departments: Economic Policy, Debt Management) at the Reserve Bank of India (1997–2009). He worked at the RBI from 1984 to 2009 in various capacities and in different departments. He started his career as management trainee in Punjab National Bank in 1983.
Dr.Singh earned his doctorate in Economics from the University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia. He was a visiting scholar for more than a year each at Department of Economics, Harvard University and the Stanford Center for International Development, Stanford University. He is former Director on the Board of National Housing Bank, Delhi and former Director in NABARD Financial Services Ltd, Bangalore. Honorary Fellow, SKOCH Development Foundation, and Member of the Informal Advisory Group on Housing Sector Issues, IMF, Washington DC.
Dr.Singh has published extensively in different journals, mainly on public policy issues related to financial sector, banking and fiscal policy. He has also authored a book on Debt Management in India (Cambridge) and edited another on Public Debt Management (Springer). He is currently working on a book documenting history of Indian banks which have been operational for more than a century.
