Dr Manmohan Singh Resume: Former prime minister Manmohan Singh, the architect of India’s economic reforms, died here on Thursday night. He was 92. Singh was prime minister for two terms in the Congress-led UPA government from 2004 to 2014.
Singh, who was finance minister under the then prime minister P V Narasimha Rao, was the architect and the brainchild of economic reforms in 1991 that pulled India from the brink of bankruptcy and ushered in an era of economic liberalisation that is widely believed to have changed the course of India’s economic trajectory.
A timeline of Manmohan Singh’s five-decade old career in bureaucracy and politics:
- 1954: Completed Master’s in Economics from Panjab University
- 1957: Economic Tripos (3-year degree prog) from Cambridge University
- 1962: D.Phil in Economics from Oxford University
- 1971: Joins Government of India as Economic Advisor in Commerce Ministry
- 1972: Appointed Chief Economic Advisor in Finance Ministry
- 1980-82: Member, Planning Commission
- 1982-1985: Governor of the Reserve Bank of India
- 1985-87: Served as Deputy Chairman of Planning Commission
- 1987-90: Secretary General of South Commission in Geneva
- 1990: Appointed Advisor to Prime Minister on Economic Affairs
- 1991: Appointed chairman of University Grants Commission
- 1991: Elected to Rajya Sabha from Assam, and re-elected in 1995, 2001, 2007 and 2013
- 1991-96: Finance Minister under P V Narasimha Rao government
- 1998-2004: Leader of the Opposition in Rajya Sabha
- 2004-2014: Prime Minister of India