Sir
Chintaman Dwarakanath Deshmukh (C. D. Deshmukh), born on
14 January 1896, was an Indian civil servant and the first Indian to be
appointed as the Governor of the Reserve Bank of India in 1943 by the British
Raj authorities. He subsequently served as the Finance Minister in the Union
Cabinet (1950–1956). It was during this time that he also became a founding
member of the Governing Body of NCAER, the National Council of Applied Economic
Research in New Delhi, India's first independent economic policy institute
established in 1956 at the behest of Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru. After
resignation from Union Cabinet he worked as Chairman of UGC (1956–1961). He
served as Vice-Chancellor of University of Delhi (1962–67). He was also
President of Indian Statistical Institute from 1945 to 1964, Honorary Chairman
of National Book Trust (1957–60). He founded India International Center in 1959
and served as Lifetime President of it. He was also chairman of Indian
Institute of Public Administration.
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