Indian-American economist Gita Gopinath to leave IMF to rejoin Harvard University faculty

 

 

INDIAN-AMERICAN economist Gita Gopinath who is serving as the first deputy managing director at the International Monetary Fund (IMF), said she is rejoining Harvard University as an economics professor. “After nearly 7 amazing years at the IMF, I have decided to return to my academic roots,” Gopinath, the first female chief economist in IMF history, said in a post on X. Gopinath will rejoin the Harvard Economics Department on September 1 as the inaugural Gregory and Ania Coffey Professor of Economics.

 

She said she is “truly grateful” for her time at IMF, where she was first chief economist and then served as first Deputy Managing Director, describing her time there as a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to serve the IMF’s membership during a period of unprecedented challenges. “I now return to my roots in academia, where I look forward to continuing to push the research frontier in international finance and macroeconomics to address global challenges, and to training the next generation of economists,” she said.