Know your prime minister

Following is the personal profile of Manmohan Singh, who will be on Friday sworn in as prime minister for the second consecutive term:

Born: September 26, 1932, in Gah, West Punjab (presently Pakistan)

Married: September 14, 1958. Has three daughters - Upender, Daman and Amrit

Education: M.A., D.Phil (Oxford), D. Litt (Honoris Causa), Educated at Universities of Punjab, Cambridge and Oxford

Positions Held:

1972-76: Chief economic advisor, Ministry of Finance

1976-80: Director, Reserve Bank of India; Director, Industrial Development Bank of India; Alternate Governor for India, board of governors, Asian Development Bank, Manila; Alternate Governor for India, board of governors, International Bank for Reconstruction and Development (IBRD)

Nov 1976-April 1980: Secretary, Ministry of Finance (Department of Economic Affairs); Member, Finance, Atomic Energy Commission; Member, Finance, Space Commission

April 1980-Sep 1982: Member-Secretary, Planning Commission

Sep 1982-Jan 1982: Governor, Reserve Bank of India

1982-85: Alternate Governor for India, Board of Governors, International Monetary Fund (IMF)

1983-84: Member, Economic Advisory Council to the Prime Minister

Jan 1985-July 1987: Deputy chairman, Planning Commission

Aug 1987-Nov 1990: Secretary General and Commissioner, South Commission, Geneva

Dec 1990-March 1991: Advisor to the Prime Minister of India on Economic Affairs

March 1991-June 1991: Chairman, University Grants Commission (UGC)

June 1991-May 1996: Union Finance Minister

Oct 1991: Elected to Rajya Sabha

1991-95: Governor for India on the Board of Governors of IMF and IBRD

June 1995 : Re-elected to Rajya Sabha

1996 onwards: Member, Consultative Committee for the Ministry of Finance

Aug 1996-Dec 1997: Chairman, Parliamentary Standing Committee on Commerce

March 1998 onwards: Leader of the opposition, Rajya Sabha

June 2001: Re-elected to Rajya Sabha

May 2004: Appointed Prime Minister of India

Accomplishments:

- Wright's Prize for distinguished performance at St John's College, Cambridge, 1955 and 1957

- Adam Smith Prize, University of Cambridge, UK, 1956

- Padma Vibhushan, 1987

- Euromoney Award, Finance Minister of the Year, 1993

- Asiamoney Award, Finance Minster of the Year for Asia, 1993 and 1994

Other Information:

- Professor, (i) Economics, Punjab University, Chandigarh, 1963-65 and (ii) International Trade, Delhi School of Economics, University of Delhi, 1969-71

- Honorary Professor, (i) Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, 1976, and (ii) Delhi School of Economics, University of Delhi, 1996

- Author of 'India's Export Trends and Prospects for Self-Sustained Growth'

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