Washington,08,Jan.2019: India-born Gita Gopinath took over as the International Monetary Fund’s (IMF) Chief Economist, becoming the first woman to occupy the top IMF post.
Gopinath, who joined last week, became the second India-born economist to hold the position after former Reserve Bank of India Governor Raghuram Rajan.
IMF Managing Director Christine Lagarde announced her appointment on October 1 last year. Gopinath is the 11th chief economist of the IMF.
Gopinath was born in India in 1971. She is a US citizen and an Overseas Citizen of India. She received her Ph.D. in economics from Princeton University in 2001 after earning her bachelor’s degree from the University of Delhi.
She earned her master’s degree from the Delhi School of Economics and the University of Washington. She joined the University of Chicago in 2001 before moving to Harvard in 2005.
Prasanta Patnaik