Gita Gopinath | |
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 Gopinath in 2025 | |
| First Deputy Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund | |
| In office 21 January 2022 –August 31, 2025 | |
| President | Kristalina Georgieva |
| Preceded by | Geoffrey Okamoto |
| Succeeded by | Vacant |
| Chief Economist of the International Monetary Fund | |
| In office 1 January 2019 –21 January 2022 | |
| President | Kristalina Georgieva |
| Preceded by | Maurice Obstfeld |
| Succeeded by | Pierre-Olivier Gourinchas |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 8 December 1971 Kolkata,West Bengal,India |
| Spouse | Iqbal Dhaliwal |
| Children | 1 |
| Relatives | A. K. Gopalan (cousin) |
| Education | |
| Awards | Pravasi Bharatiya Samman |
| Academic background | |
| Doctoral advisor | |
| Academic work | |
| Institutions | |
Gita Gopinath (born 8 December 1971) [1] is an Indian-American economist who has served as the first deputy managing director of the International Monetary Fund (IMF),since 21 January 2022. She had previously served as chief economist of the IMF between 2019 and 2022.
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Prior to joining the IMF,Gopinath had a two-decade-long career as an academic including at the economics department of Harvard University,where she was the John Zwaanstra Professor of International Studies and Economics (2005–2022),and earlier an assistant professor at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business (2001–05). She is also a co-director of the international finance and macroeconomics program at the National Bureau of Economic Research and has earlier worked as the honorary economic adviser to the chief minister of Kerala.
Gita Gopinath was appointed as chief economist of the IMF in October 2018 by its managing director Christine Lagarde. In an interview with Trevor Noah on The Daily Show ,she named the worldwide recession of 2020 as "the Great Lockdown". In December 2021,IMF managing director Kristalina Georgieva appointed her the first deputy managing director of the IMF,which is the organization's second-in-command position. Gopinath will leave the IMF by the end of August 2025 to rejoin Harvard as the inaugural Gregory and Ania Coffey Professor of Economics in the Department of Economics. [2]
