Gita Gopinath

Gita Gopinath (born 8 December 1971) is an Indian-American economist. She is the John Zwaanstra Professor of International Studies and Economics at Harvard University. She is also a co-director of the International Finance and Macroeconomics program at the National Bureau of Economic Research. She has worked as the Economic Adviser to the Chief Minister of Kerala.^{[1][2][3] [4][5]} She is a visiting scholar at the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston and a member of the economic advisory panel of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York. Gopinath is a co-editor at the American Economic Review, co-editor of the current Handbook of International Economics and was managing editor of the Review of Economic Studies. Her research focuses on International Finance and Macroeconomics.

Gita Gopinath
Chief Economist of the International Monetary Fund
Incumbent
Assumed office 1 January 2019
President	Christine Lagarde
Preceded by	Maurice Obstfeld
Personal details
Born	(1971-12-08) 8 December 1971 (age 53) Kolkata, India
Education	University of Delhi (BA, MA) University of Washington, Seattle (MA) Princeton University (PhD)
Academic career
Doctoral advisor	Kenneth Rogoff Ben Bernanke Pierre-Olivier Gourinchas

Early life and education

Gopinath was born in Kolkata, India.^[6] She is the younger of two daughters of TV Gopinath and VC Vijayalakshmi. They are both from Kannur, Kerala but settled in Mysore. .^[7]

She earned 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 completed an M.A. degree at the University of Washington in 1996. In 2001, she got a Ph.D. degree at Princeton University. She won Princeton's Woodrow Wilson Fellowship Research Award while doing her doctoral research at Princeton.^[8]

Honors

• 2011: chosen as a Young Global Leader by the World Economic Forum.
• 2014: named one of the top 25 economists under 45 by the International Monetary Fund.
• 2017: received the Distinguished Alumnus Award from the University of Washington.
• 2018: elected a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

Personal

Gopinath's husband Iqbal Singh Dhaliwal is Executive Director at Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab at Department of Economics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology. They have a son named Rohil.^[9][7]