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6 Indian Americans in 'Top Global Thinkers List'
By siliconindia
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Wednesday, 28 November 2012, 23:03 IST |
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Bangalore: “Clear thinking requires courage rather than intelligence.” Freedom of speech and expression is something which we all boast about, but only few personalities have shown real courage in taking their ideas and thoughts to the public. Foreign Policy magazine recently came up with a list of the top 100 "Global Thinkers” and six Indian Americans were successful in making it to the list.
Narayana Kocherlakota
Narayana Kocherlakota, an economist who serves as the president of Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis came 10th in the list.Kocherlakota made a public announcement in the month of September, asking the Federal Reserve Bank to reduce the interest rates to zero until unemployment falls below 5.5 percent, reports Foreign Policy.
Kocherlakota was appointed to the post of president and chief executive officer of the Federal Reserve Bank in the year 2008. Prior to this, he was a member of the Minneapolis Fed’s Research staff and also worked as a Research consultant for the Bank.
Born in a Telugu Brahmin family, Kocherlakota holds a Ph.D. in economics from the University of Chicago in 1987 and an A.B. in mathematics from Princeton in 1983.
