S Venkitaramanan was the eighteenth Governor of the Reserve Bank of India from 22 December 1990 to 22 December 1992.
Venkitaramanan also served as Finance Secretary, Ministry of Finance from 1985 to 1989 [1]
Venkitaramanan was born in Nagercoil to a Tamil Iyer family in the southern Indian state of Tamil Nadu. He holds a master's degree in Physics from the University College Thiruvananthapuram, Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala and also a master's degree in Industrial Administration from Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburg, USA. He was a member of the Indian Administrative Service, he had served as Finance Secretary, and adviser to the Government of Karnataka before his appointment as Governor of the RBI.
Venkitaramanan has published three books, Indian Economy: Reviews And Commentaries - Vol I, Indian Economy: Reviews And Commentaries - Vol II, and Indian Economy: Reviews And Commentaries - Vol III.
His daughter Girija Vaidyanathan — a 1981, Tamil Nadu cadre Indian Administrative Service officer — is the current Chief Secretary of Tamil Nadu.