NEWS

Indian-American Gita Gopinath, the chief economist of International Monetary Fund, is being promoted as IMF’s First Deputy Managing Director

ABOUT

• Born and brought up in India
• US citizen and an overseas citizen of India
• Pursued her PhD in Economics from Princeton University in 2001
• MA degrees from both the University of Washington and Delhi School of Economics.
• Undergraduate studies in Bachelors in Arts program from Delhi University.
• Worked as Professor in University of Chicago’s Graduate School , Harvard ,Ivy-league institute
• Co-editor of the American Economic review
• Co-director of the International Finance and Macroeconomics Program at the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER).
• Co-editor of the current Handbook of International Economics with Former IMF Economic Counsellor Kenneth Rogoff.
• Authored more than 40 research articles on a wide range of topics such as exchange rates, trade and investment, international financial crisis
• Served as the Economic Advisor to the Chief Minister of Kerala
• Visiting scholar at the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston
• Member of the economic advisory panel at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York
• Served as a member of the Eminent Persons Advisory Group on G-20 Matters for India’s Ministry of Finance.
• Second Indian and first female chief economist in International Monetary Fund history, has been promoted as IMF’s First Deputy Managing Director
• Will IMF’s second-ranking official, replacing First Deputy Managing Director Geoffrey Okamoto who will leave the global lender in early 2022.
• In 2018 became the second Indian after former RBI governor Raghuram Rajan to be appointed as chief economist of the International Monetary Fund.
• Was serving as the John Zwaanstra Professor of International Studies and Economics at Harvard University.