Dr. Y.V. Reddy, Governor of the Reserve Bank of India, delivered a speech on India's external sector on 23 June 2005.

Dr. Yaga Venugopal Reddy was appointed Governor of the Reserve Bank of India in September 2003. Dr. Reddy was previously India's Executive Director on the Board of the International Monetary Fund. An officer of the Indian Administrative Service 1964 batch, Dr. Reddy has spent most of his career working in the areas of finance and planning both, at State and Central level. He has held the positions of Secretary (Banking) in Ministry of Finance, Additional Secretary, Ministry of Commerce, Joint Secretary in Ministry of Finance in Government of India and Principal Secretary in Government of Andhra Pradesh. He was also Adviser in World Bank and is on the International Monetary Fund's panel of consultants in Fiscal Affairs.

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