Gita Gopinath

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Gita Gopinath
Gita Gopinath, 2012 (cropped).jpg
Chief Economist of the International Monetary Fund
Assumed office
1 January 2019
Preceded byMaurice Obstfeld
Personal details
Born (1971-12-08) 8 December 1971 (age 49)[1]
Kolkata, India
CitizenshipUnited States[2]
Education
Academic career
Spouse(s)
Iqbal Dhaliwal
​
(m. 1999)​
Doctoral
advisor

Gita Gopinath (born 8 December 1971) 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.

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 Calcutta, India in a Malayali family.[14][15] She is the younger of two daughters of T.V. Gopinath and V.C. Vijayalakshmi.[16] Her family 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 1992, Gopinath got her B.A degree in economics from University of Delhi. In 1994 Gita Gopinath got her first master's degree at the Delhi School of Economics. In 1996, she got her second master's degree in economics at University of Washington. In 2001, Gita Gopinath got her Ph.D. in economics in the field of international macroeconomics and trade at Princeton University. [21] She joined the University of Chicago's Booth School of Business as an assistant professor.[22]

In October 2018, 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.[23]

In June 2021, Gopinath was appointed to the World Bank–International Monetary Fund High-Level Advisory Group (HLAG) on Sustainable and Inclusive Recovery and Growth, co-chaired by Mari Pangestu, Ceyla Pazarbasioglu, and Nicholas Stern.[24]

Honours[]

In 2018, Gopinath 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.[25] 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 was awarded the Pravasi Bharatiya Samman, the highest honor for a person of Indian origin, by the President of India.

Year Country of residence Award Name Given by
2019  United States Pravasi Bharatiya Samman President 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.[26][16]

Gopinath is a and an Overseas Citizen of India.[27]

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. ^ "Top Of The Heap". www.magzter.com. Retrieved 26 January 2021.
  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. ^ Jump up to: a b "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 IMF appoints a new chief economist". 4 October 2018. Retrieved 26 January 2021 – via The Economist.
  10. ^ "Gita Gopinath - The Economic Aftermath of Coronavirus | The Daily Social Distancing Show - YouTube". www.youtube.com. Retrieved 26 January 2021.
  11. ^ "Centre for Monitoring Indian Economy". Centre for Monitoring Indian Economy. Retrieved 26 January 2021.
  12. ^ Mishra, Asit Ranjan (9 April 2020). "Stimulus is a solution, but be wary of fiscal deficit, says IMF's Gita Gopinath". mint. Retrieved 26 January 2021.
  13. ^ "The Great Lockdown: Worst Economic Downturn Since the Great Depression". Retrieved 26 January 2021.
  14. ^ Jump up to: a b "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. ^ Jump up to: a b "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. ^ "GITA GOPINATH" (PDF). Retrieved 26 January 2021.
  22. ^ "WHO IS GITA GOPINATH". Business Standard India. Retrieved 24 December 2020.
  23. ^ Handbook of International Economics 1st Edition, Kindle Edition, Amazon.com
  24. ^ World Bank, IMF Launch High-Level Advisory Group on Sustainable and Inclusive Recovery and Growth International Monetary Fund, press release of June 15, 2021.
  25. ^ "Foreign Policy's 100 Global Thinkers". Retrieved 26 January 2021.
  26. ^ "Harvard economist Gita Gopinath appointed chief economist at IMF". The Economic Times. 1 October 2018. Retrieved 3 October 2018.
  27. ^ "Gita Gopinath". International Monetary Fund. 3 January 2019. Retrieved 14 April 2020.

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