All You Need to Know About The First Women Chief Economist of IMF ‘Gita Gopinath’
Recently a proud moment for India, when Gita Gopinath a Indian origin economist, who became the first women chief economist of IMF. Now, women are crossing every single height of success to make their nation proud and that’s what we can say a ‘New India’. IMF is an International Monetary Fund, who have headquarters in Washington, D.C., consisting of “189 countries working to foster global monetary cooperation, secure financial stability, facilitate international trade, promote high employment and sustainable economic growth, and reduce poverty around the world.
IMF Managing Director Christine @Lagarde appoints Harvard’s Gita Gopinath as IMF Chief Economist, replacing Maury Obstfeld who will retire from IMF in December. https://t.co/M6UV5qH714 pic.twitter.com/k16ztkYIwi
— IMF (@IMFNews) October 1, 2018
I know you are eagerly waiting to know more about Gita Gopinath, so let me tell you something interesting about Gita.
After former RBI Governor Raghuram Rajan, Gita Gopinath is the second Indian to hold this position
She is also the first woman to head the research department, which publishes the IMF’s flagship publication, World Economic Outlook.
Gita Gopinath is a US citizen, who was born in Mysuru in 1971.
She had done her earlier education from Kolkata and did her BA (Honours) in Economics from Lady Shri Ram College in Delhi University. She had done her masters from Delhi School of Economics and University of Washington.
After completing her PhD from Princeton University, she joined the University of Chicago’s Graduate School of Business as an Assistant Professor.
For the finance minister in India, she served as a member of the Eminent Person Advisory Group on G-20 Matters. She was also appointed as the Economic Advisor to the Kerala CM in 2016.
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