The C.D. Deshmukh Memorial Lecture series in honour of Chintaman Dwarakanath Deshmukh.

He was RBI’s first Indian Governor from 1943 to 1949; a member of the Indian delegation to the 1944 Bretton Woods Conference that created the IMF and the World Bank; Finance Minister from 1950 to 1956; and a founding father of NCAER in 1956.