I. G. Patel

Indraprasad Gordhanbhai Patel (11 November 1924 – 17 July 2005), popularly known as I. G. Patel, was an Indian economist and civil servant who is best known as the fourteenth Governor of the Reserve Bank of India, and the ninth director of the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE). As LSE's director, Patel was the first person of Indian origin to head a higher education institution in the United Kingdom. After his stint at LSE, Patel served as Chairman of the Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad. He was well known for his formidable intellectual powers in the select company of elite central bankers and statesmen such as the "Committee of the Thirty" set up by the former German Chancellor Helmut Schmidt. He also served as Deputy Administrator at the United Nations Development Programme headquarters in New York.