K. G. Ambegaonkar

K. G. Ambegaokar was the fifth Governor of the Reserve Bank of India from 14 January 1957 to 28 February 1957. He was a member of the Indian Civil Service, and served as Finance Secretary before his appointment as Deputy Governor of the RBI.^[1] On the resignation of B Rama Rau he took over as the Governor. His tenure was the third-shortest (45 days) after B. N. Adarkar (42) and Amitav Ghosh (20).^[1] Compared to the latter two Governors Ambegaonkar's signature as RBI Governor does not appear on any Indian Rupee note,^[1] but his signature as Finance Secretary appeared on the second, third, and fourth Rupee one notes issued after independence.^[2]

References

1 2 3 "List of Governors". Reserve Bank of India. Retrieved 2006-12-08.
↑ Jain, Manik (2009). Indian Paper Money Guide Book 2009. Kolkata: Philatelia. pp. 125, and 126.

Governors of the Reserve Bank of India

	Osborne Smith (1935–37) James Braid Taylor (1937–43) C. D. Deshmukh (1943–49) Benegal Rama Rau (1949–57) K. G. Ambegaonkar (1957) H. V. R. Iyengar (1957–62) P. C. Bhattacharya (1962–67) Lakshmi Kant Jha (1967–70) B. N. Adarkar (1970) S. Jagannathan (1970–75) N. C. Sen Gupta (1975) K. R. Puri (1975–77) M. Narasimham (1977) I. G. Patel (1977–82) Manmohan Singh (1982–85) Amitav Ghosh (1985) R. N. Malhotra (1985–90) S. Venkitaramanan (1990–92) C. Rangarajan (1992–97) Bimal Jalan (1997–2003) Y. Venugopal Reddy (2003–08) Duvvuri Subbarao (2008–13) Raghuram Rajan (2013–16) Urjit Patel (2016–)

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