| 1. He does not smoke. |
| 2. He does not drink alcohol. |
| 3. His father topped his 1953 IPS officer batch. |
| 4. He believed his father was a diplomat. |
| 5. He aspired to be India's Prime Minister in his youth. |
| 6. He played in the school orchestra. |
| 7. In an interview, he shared he did not have a blazer in school. |
| 8. In 1985, he received the Director’s Gold Medal at IIT, Delhi. |
| 9. In 1987, he was awarded a Gold Medal at IIM Ahmedabad. |
| 10. His Ph.D. thesis was titled 'Essays on Banking'. |
| 11. He won the inaugural Fischer Black Prize in 2003. |
| 12. He predicted the 2008 financial crisis in 2005. |
| 13. He served as Chief Economist at the IMF from 2003 to 2006. |
| 14. He became Chief Economic Adviser to India’s Finance Ministry in 2012. |
| 15. He became the youngest RBI Governor in 2013. |
| 16. In 2014, he was a candidate to head the IMF. |
| 17. He received the Best Bank Governor Award in 2014. |
| 18. He was named in Time magazine's '100 Most Influential People in the World' list in 2016. |
| 19. His book 'Fault Lines' won the FT-Goldman Sachs best business book prize in 2010. |
| 20. His book 'I Do What I Do' was released in September 2017. |
| 21. In an interview, he shared his son's perception of him. |
| 22. He follows a vegetarian diet. |
| 23. He is known as a 'Rockstar' and 'Financial Prophet'. |
| 24. He joined Rahul Gandhi on the Bharat Jodo Yatra in Rajasthan in December 2022. |
| 25. He is the Katherine Dusak Miller Distinguished Service Professor of Finance at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business. |
| 26. He was the 23rd Governor of the Reserve Bank of India from 2013 to 2016. |
| 27. He served as Vice-Chairman of the Bank for International Settlements from 2015 to 2016. |
| 28. He is the Harold W. McGraw, III Foundation Senior Fellow (adjunct) at the Hoover Institution. |
| 29. He was president of the American Finance Association in 2011. |
| 30. He is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the Group of Thirty. |
