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Amitabh Rajan is a retired Indian Administrative Service officer of Maharashtra cadre, who, during the past four decades, has led large organisations (namely, institutions of foreign trade, financial services, power sector regulation, public investment, and internal security and vigilance). He was the Home Secretary to the Government of Maharashtra for three years and district magistrate for five years and served at the highest policy levels in the union ministries of finance, personnel, and social justice for several years. He was also chairman and managing director of a national development finance corporation for five years and an independent director on the Board of the State Trading Corporation for three years. Besides being the chairman of the Reserve Bank of India Services Board, Rajan is also a member of the State Bank of India's independent committee on stressed assets. He is the recipient of several awards, including the Government of India Award for Excellence in the Achievement of MOU Targets from the president of India (2003), Indian Institute of Public Administration Award for Best Article in the Indian Journal of Public Administration from the vice-president of India (2018), SCOPE Meritorious Award for Best Managed Public Sector Enterprise from the prime minister of India (2008), and Institute of Chartered Accountants of India Award for Excellence in financial reporting from the governor of Jammu and Kashmir (2005). He received his PhD in sociological jurisprudence, which was published as a book, and has taught at two central universities. He has also authored seminal articles on the jurisprudence of children's rights and on the evolution of information rights jurisprudence, published simultaneously in the Indian Journal of Public Administration and the All-India Reporter. Other publications cover topics relating to regulation theory, post-2008 financial technology, institutional dynamics of governance reform, institutional politics of