List of Governors of Reserve Bank of India
The first RBI governor was British banker, Osborn Smith, while the first Indian to be the Governor of the
Reserve Bank of India was C.D. Deshmukh. The current Governor of RBI is Shashikant Das, who took
charge on December 12, 2018.
The list of RBI Governors from 1935 to 2019 is as mentioned below:
RBI Governors Time Period 1935-2019
Sir Osborne Smith April 1, 1935 - June 30, 1937
Sir James Braid Taylor July 1, 1937 - February 17, 1943
Sir C.D. Deshmukh August 11, 1943 - June 30, 1949
Sir Bengal Rama Rau July 1, 1949 - January 14, 1957
K.G. Ambegaonkar January 14, 1957 - February 28, 1957
H.V.R Lyengar March 1, 1957 - February 28, 1962
P.C Bhattacharya March 1, 1962 - June 30, 1967
L.K. Jha July 1, 1967 - May 3, 1970
B.N. Adarkar May 4, 1970 - June 15, 1970
S. Jagannathan June 16, 1970 - May 19, 1975
N.C. Sen Gupta May 19, 1975 - August 19, 1975
K.R. Puri August 20, 1975 - May 2, 1977
M. Narasimham May 3, 1977 - November 30, 1977
I.G. Patel December 1, 1977 - September 15, 1982
Manmohan Singh September 16, 1982 - January 14, 1985
Amitav Gosh January 15, 1985 - September 4, 1985
R.N. Malhotra February 4, 1985 - December 22, 1990
S. Vpnldraramanan December 22, 1990 - December 21, 1992
C. Rangarajan December 22, 1992 - November 21, 1997
Bimal Jalan November 22, 1997 - September 6, 2003
Y.V. Reddy September 6, 2003 - September 5, 2008
D. Subbarao September 5, 2008 - September 4, 2013
Raghuram G. Raj an September 4, 2013 - September 4, 2016
Urjit Ravindra Patel September 4, 2016 - December 10,2018
Shaktikanta Das December 11, 2018 - to date