Gita Gopinath

Gita Gopinath (born 8 December 1971) is an Indian American economist who has been the Chief Economist of the International Monetary Fund since 2019.[3][4] In that role she is the Director of IMF's Research Department and the Economic Counsellor of the Fund.

Gita Gopinath
Chief Economist of the International Monetary Fund
Assumed office
1 January 2019
Preceded byMaurice Obstfeld
Personal details
Born (1971-12-08) 8 December 1971[1]
Kolkata, India
CitizenshipUnited States [2]
EducationUniversity of Delhi (BA, MA)
University of Washington (MA)
Princeton University (PhD)
Academic career
Doctoral
advisor		Kenneth Rogoff
Ben Bernanke
Pierre-Olivier Gourinchas

She is on leave of public service from the economics department of Harvard University where she is the John Zwaanstra Professor of International Studies and Economics. She is also a co-director of the International Finance and Macroeconomics program at the National Bureau of Economic Research and has worked as the Economic Adviser to the Chief Minister of Kerala.[5][6][7]

Gopinath was appointed as Chief Economist of the International Monetary Fund in October 2018.[8][9] In an interview with Trevor Noah on The Daily Show, she named the worldwide recession of 2020 as "The Great Lockdown."[10][11][12][13]

Early life and education

Gita Gopinath was born on 8 December 1971 in Kolkata, India.[14][15] She is the younger of two daughters of T.V. Gopinath and V.C. Vijayalakshmi, both of whom hail from Kannur, Kerala.[16] Her father, T.V. Gopinath, is related to the late A. K. Gopalan.[17]

Gopinath studied at Nirmala Convent School in Mysore.[14][18] She received a B.A. degree from Lady Shri Ram College for Women of the University of Delhi in 1992 and an M.A. degree in economics from Delhi School of Economics, also of the University of Delhi, in 1994. She further completed an M.A. degree at the University of Washington in 1996. She earned her Ph.D. in economics from Princeton University in 2001 after completing a doctoral dissertation titled "Three essays on international capital flows: a search theoretic approach," under the supervision of Ben Bernanke and Kenneth Rogoff.[19] She was awarded the Princeton's Woodrow Wilson Fellowship Research Award while doing her doctoral research at Princeton.[20]

Career

In October 2018, Gita Gopinath was appointed chief economist of the International Monetary Fund.[7] Gita Gopinath is the John Zwaanstra Professor of International Studies and of Economics at Harvard University. She is co-director of the International Finance and Macroeconomics program at the National Bureau of Economic Research, a visiting scholar at the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston, a member of the economic advisory panel of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, Economic Adviser to the Chief Minister of Kerala state (India), a co-editor at the American Economic Review, and a co-editor of the 2019 edition of the Handbook of International Economics.[21]

Honours

In October 2018, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) Managing Director Christine Lagarde appointed Gita Gopinath as Economic Counsellor and Director of the IMF's Research Department.[7] In 2018, she was elected a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the Econometric Society. Foreign Policy named her one of the Top Global Thinkers in 2019.[22] In 2017, she received the Distinguished Alumnus Award from the University of Washington. She was named one of the top 25 economists under 45 by the International Monetary Fund in 2014 and was chosen as a Young Global Leader by the World Economic Forum in 2011. In 2019 she has been awarded Pravasi Bharatiya Samman, the highest honor for a person of Indian origin, by the President of India.

YearCountry of residenceAward NameGiven by
2019 United StatesPravasi Bharatiya SammanPresident of India

Personal life

Gopinath's husband, Iqbal Singh Dhaliwal, is the Global Executive Director at Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab at the Department of Economics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He began his career in public service as a member of the Indian Administrative Service (IAS), which he left later. He was the first rank holder of UPSC civil service 1995. His first posting was as Sub-collector in Tirunelveli District. They have a son named Rohil.[23][16]

Gopinath is a naturalized American Citizen and an Overseas Citizen of India. [24]

References
  1. "Gita Gopinath: From a middle-class Indian girl to IMF's chief economist". Prathima Nandakumar. The Week. 15 October 2018. Retrieved 21 January 2020.
  2. https://www.magzter.com/article/News/THE-WEEK/Top-Of-The-Heap
  3. IMFBlog. "Gita Gopinath". IMF Blog. Retrieved 19 October 2019.
  4. "Gita Gopinath - Biographical Information". IMF. Retrieved 19 October 2019.
  5. "Christine Lagarde Appoints Gita Gopinath as IMF Chief Economist". International Monetary Fund. 1 October 2018. Retrieved 4 October 2018.
  6. "IMF appoints India-born Gita Gopinath as Chief Economist". The Times of India. 1 October 2018. Retrieved 3 October 2018.
  7. "Harvard Economist Gita Gopinath Appointed Chief Economist At International Monetary Fund". Headlines Today. Archived from the original on 2 October 2018. Retrieved 2 October 2018.
  8. "Gita Gopinath joins IMF as its first female Chief Economist". The Economic Times. 8 January 2019. Retrieved 9 January 2019.
  9. "The Economist: IMF appoints a new chief economist, October 4, 2018".
  10. "The Daily Show with Trevor Noah featuring IMF Chief Economist Gita Gopinath, YouTube, April 7, 2020".
  11. "CMIE: Gita Gopinath terms current crisis as Great Lockdown, April 10, 2020".
  12. "The IMF chief economist terms the current economic stasis as 'The Great Lockdown', Live Mint, April 9, 2020".
  13. "The Great Lockdown: Worst Economic Downturn Since the Great Depression, IMF Blog, April 14, 2020".
  14. "10 things to know about Gita Gopinath, the new IMF chief economist". India Today. 1 October 2018. Retrieved 3 October 2018.
  15. Nandakumar, Prathima (15 October 2018). "Gita Gopinath: From a middle-class Indian girl to IMF's chief economist". The Week. Retrieved 24 December 2019.
  16. "Mysuru elated as Gita Gopinath is IMF's chief economist". TR Sathish Kumar. Deccan Herald. 2 October 2018. Retrieved 3 October 2018.
  17. "Good Enough for IMF Top Post, Gita Gopinath's Appointment as Kerala Adviser Had Left Many Unimpressed". News18.
  18. "Gita hardworking and focused: Proud father". Lawrence Milton. The Times of India . 2 October 2018. Retrieved 3 October 2018.
  19. Gopinath, Gita (2001). Three essays on international capital flows: a search theoretic approach.
  20. Gopinath, Gita (April 2018). "Curriculum Vitae" (PDF). Harvard University. Retrieved 29 December 2019.
  21. Handbook of International Economics 1st Edition, Kindle Edition, Amazon.com
  22. "Foreign Policy".
  23. "Harvard economist Gita Gopinath appointed chief economist at IMF". The Economic Times. 1 October 2018. Retrieved 3 October 2018.
  24. "Gita Gopinath". International Monetary Fund. 3 January 2019. Retrieved 14 April 2020.


Diplomatic posts
Preceded by
Maurice Obstfeld		 Chief Economist of the International Monetary Fund
2019–present		 Incumbent
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