Dr. Sundararajan meninggal awal april lalu di Khartoum Sudan setelah mengikuti acara yang diadakan oleh IFSB. Walaupun beliau bukan muslim, tapi kontribusinya sangat banyak untuk perkembangan indusri Islamic finance secara global terutama dalam mendisain prudential standard yang dikeluarkan oleh IFSB.
Berikut berita mengenai kepergian beliau dalam sebuah artikel: --- On Wed, 4/21/10, Ronald Rulindo <[email protected]> wrote: From: Ronald Rulindo <[email protected]> Subject: News article about the late Dr. Sundararajan To: [email protected] Date: Wednesday, April 21, 2010, 2:37 PM Thank you and best regards, Ronald Rulindo | Senior Executive, Technical Islamic Financial Services Board (IFSB) I 3rd Floor, Block A, Bank Negara Malaysia Building, Jalan Dato' Onn, 50480 Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia ( + 603 2698 4248 Ext: 117 7 +603 2698 4280 + [email protected] " www.ifsb.org Note: This message, together with any attachment(s), is intended only for the use of the person(s) to whom it is addressed and may contain information that is privileged or otherwise protected from disclosure. If you are not the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any use, review, disclosure or copying of this message and the information it contains is prohibited. If you receive the message in error, please notify the sender by reply e-mail and discard all its contents. P Please consider the environment before printing this e-mail. ----- Forwarded by Ronald Rulindo/IFSB on 04/21/2010 03:41 PM ----- Shin Kim 04/21/2010 02:14 PM To: cc: (bcc: Ronald Rulindo/IFSB) Subject: News article about the late Dr. Sundararajan Dear all, I found a news article about the late Dr. Sundararajan, our consultant. We all will miss him very much. VENKATARAMAN SUNDARARAJAN, 65 IMF economist Venkataraman Sundararajan dies Sunday, April 18, 2010 Venkataraman Sundararajan, 65, who was an internationally recognized authority on international monetary policies and spent 30 years as a top economist at the International Monetary Fund, died April 11 of a heart attack while on business trip in Khartoum, Sudan. Dr. Sundararajan, who joined the IMF in 1974, was considered an expert in fiscal and monetary policies and helped develop analytical models to assess the stability of various countries' financial sectors. During the 1990s, he spent a great deal of time in Eastern Europe, helping the governments of Poland, Hungary, the Czech Republic and other countries transition from communist systems to free-market economies. He wrote and edited many books and articles on financial policy and helped develop guidelines at the IMF and World Bank for assessing international financial sectors. After retiring as deputy director of the IMF's monetary and financial systems department in 2004, Dr. Sundararajan joined the Centennial Group, an international consulting firm. He headed the company's financial sector practice. At the Centennial Group, he led efforts in the field of Islamic finance and banking, designing financial practices in keeping with Muslim law. In that role, he helped set up the Islamic Financial Services Board, an international body that promotes stability in the financial and banking industries of the Muslim world. He traveled widely to Islamic countries, including Indonesia, Lebanon, Malaysia, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates and Sudan. When he died in Khartoum, Dr. Sundararajan was working with the country's central bank. Dr. Sundararajan was born in Ayyampet in the southern Indian state of Tamil Nadu. He received bachelor's and master's degrees in statistics from the Indian Statistical Institute in 1964 and 1966, respectively. He received a doctorate in economics from Harvard University in 1971. He taught at New York University from 1971 to 1974. Dr. Sundararajan lived in Bethesda and was a benefactor and volunteer at Sri Siva Vishnu Hindu temple in Lanham. He and his wife, Kalyani Srinivasan Sundararajan of Bethesda, were married in 1974. She survives, along with two children, Prashant Sundararajan of Boston and Kripa Sundararajan of New York; three brothers; a sister; and two grandchildren. Thank you and best regards, Shin Kim | Assistant Manager Islamic Financial Services Board (IFSB) I 3rd Floor, Block A, Bank Negara Malaysia Building, Jalan Dato' Onn, 50480 Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia ( + 603 2698 4248 Ext: 140 7 +603 2698 4280 + [email protected] " http://www.ifsb.org/ Note: This message, together with any attachment(s), is intended only for the use of the person(s) to whom it is addressed and may contain information that is privileged or otherwise protected from disclosure. If you are not the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any use, review, disclosure or copying of this message and the information it contains is prohibited. If you receive the message in error, please notify the sender by reply e-mail and discard all its contents. P Please consider the environment before printing this e-mail.
