1. Gita Gopinath was born on 8 December 1971 and is an Indian-American economist who has served as the first deputy managing director of the International Monetary Fund, since 21 January 2022.
16 Facts About Gita Gopinath
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Gita Gopinath had previously served as chief economist of the IMF between 2019 and 2022.
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Gita Gopinath is a co-director of the international finance and macroeconomics program at the National Bureau of Economic Research and has earlier worked as the honorary economic adviser to the chief minister of Kerala.
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Gita Gopinath was appointed as chief economist of the IMF in October 2018 by its managing director Christine Lagarde.
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Gita Gopinath was born on 8 December 1971, in Kolkata, India in a Malayali Hindu family from Kannur, Kerala.
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Gita Gopinath was awarded the Princeton's Woodrow Wilson Fellowship Research Award while doing her doctoral research at Princeton.
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In October 2018, Gita Gopinath was appointed chief economist of the International Monetary Fund.
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In December 2021, Gita Gopinath was elevated as the fund's new first deputy managing director, the number two position at the fund.
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Gita Gopinath had been earlier scheduled to return to her academic position at Harvard University in January 2022 on completion of her term as chief economist.
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Gita Gopinath is the right person at the right time.
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Gita Gopinath was earlier the 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, a co-editor at the American Economic Review, and a co-editor of the 2019 edition of the Handbook of International Economics.
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Gita Gopinath 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.
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Gita Gopinath was named among the Bloomberg "50 people who defined 2019" and among the "Women who Broke Major Barriers to Become Firsts" by Time magazine.
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In 2021 Gita Gopinath was selected by the Carnegie Corporation as a "Great Immigrant, Great American".
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Gita Gopinath is a naturalized American citizen and an overseas citizen of India.
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Gita Gopinath is married to Iqbal Singh Dhaliwal, her classmate from the Delhi School of Economics.