Bio and CV

Gita Gopinath is the John Zwaanstra Professor of International Studies and of Economics at Harvard University. She is currently on leave of public service from the economics department to serve as the Chief Economist of the International Monetary Fund (IMF). In that role she is the Director of IMF's Research Department and the Economic Counsellor of the Fund. 

Professor Gopinath's research focuses on International Finance and Macroeconomics. She has authored numerous research articles on exchange rates, trade and investment, international financial crises, monetary policy, debt, and emerging market crises. She is the co-editor of the current Handbook of International Economics and was earlier the co-editor of the American Economic Review, managing editor of the Review of Economic Studies, and co-director of the International Finance and Macroeconomics program at the National Bureau of Economic Research.

Professor Gopinath is an elected fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and of the Econometric Society, and a member of the Group of Thirty and the Council on Foreign RelationsEarlier she was a member of the economic advisory panel of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, and a visiting scholar at the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston

The International Economic Association named Professor Gopinath the Schumpeter-Haberler Distinguished Fellow, the Agricultural & Applied Economics Association recognized her with the John Kenneth Galbraith Award, and the Carnegie Corporation named her among Great ImmigrantsShe is the recipient of the Pravasi Bharatiya Samman, the highest honour conferred on overseas Indians by the Government of India, and the Distinguished Alumnus Award from the University of Washington.

Financial Times named Professor Gopinath among the 25 Most Influential Women of 2021, she was named Bloomberg 50 people who defined 2019, Foreign Policy named her one of the Top Global ThinkersTime Magazine named her among the Women who Broke Major Barriers to Become 'Firsts', Vogue India recognized her one of the Women of the Year, and she was named among Most Influential Princeton Alumni. Earlier the IMF named her one of the top 25 economists under 45, Financial Times named her one of the 25 Indians to Watch, and she was chosen as a Young Global Leader by the World Economic Forum.

Before coming to Harvard, she was an assistant professor of economics at the University of Chicago’s Booth School of Business. She received her Ph.D. in economics from Princeton University, after earning a B.A. from Lady Sri Ram College, and M.A. degrees from the Delhi School of Economics and the University of Washington.

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