INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
Gita Gopinath,Mysuru-born, is the first-ever woman Chief Economist of the IMF.Washington: IMF's Chief Economist Gita Gopinath will leave her
job in January next year and return to the prestigious Harvard University, according to the global financial institution.The 49-year-old
prominent Indian-American economist had joined the International Monetary Fund (IMF) as the Chief Economist in January 2019.She was the John
Zwaanstra Professor of International Studies and Economics at Harvard University when she joined the Washington-based global lender.IMF
as the first female Chief Economist of the Fund and we benefited immensely from her sharp intellect and deep knowledge of international
admiration of colleagues in the Research Department across the Fund, and throughout the membership for leading analytically rigorous work
world.This work led to the creation of the Multilateral Task Force made up of the leadership of the IMF, the World Bank, the World Trade
Organisation and the World Health Organisation to help end the pandemic and the establishment of a working group with vaccine manufacturers
to identify trade barriers, supply bottlenecks, and accelerate delivery of vaccines to low- and lower-middle income countries, the IMF said
in a statement.Among her other key accomplishments, Ms Gopinath helped set up a Climate Change team inside the IMF to analyse, among other
always wise counsel, her devotion for the mission of the Research Department and the Fund more broadly, as well as her widely recognised
schooling in Kolkata and graduated from the Lady Shri Ram College of Commerce in Delhi
She did Masters from the Delhi School of Economics as well as from the University of Washington.Ms Gopinath did her Ph.D in economics from
Princeton University in 2001 and she was guided by Kenneth Rogoff, Ben Bernanke and Pierre-Olivier Gourinchas.She joined the University of
Chicago in 2001 as an Assistant Professor before moving to Harvard in 2005
She became a tenured Professor there in 2010.She is the third woman in the history of Harvard to be a tenured professor at its esteemed
economics department and the first Indian since the Nobel laureate Amartya Sen to hold that position.(This story has not been edited by
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