I. G. Patel, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

I. G. Patel

Indian banker

Date of Birth: 11-Nov-1924

Place of Birth: Vadodara, Gujarat, India

Date of Death: 17-Jul-2005

Profession: economist, civil servant, banker

Zodiac Sign: Scorpio

Indraprasad Gordhanbhai Patel (11 November 1924 – 17 July 2005) popularly known as I.
G.
Patel, was an Indian economist and a civil servant who served as the fourteenth Governor of the Reserve Bank of India from 1 December 1977 to 15 September 1982.He served as Director of Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad and also as Director of the London School of Economics, making him the first person of Indian origin to head a higher education institute in the UK and was well known for his formidable intellectual powers in the select company of central bankers and economic statesmen such as the "Committee of the Thirty" set up by the former German Chancellor Helmut Schmidt.He also served as Deputy Administrator at United Nations Development Programme headquarters in New York.