Gita Gopinath is the Chief Economist of the International Monetary Fund.[2][3]
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 and has worked as the Economic Adviser to the Chief Minister of Kerala.[4][5][6]
Gita was appointed as chief economist of the International Monetary Fund in October 2018.[7][8] Her research focuses on International Finance and Macroeconomics.
Early life and education
Gita was born on 8 December 1971 in Kolkata, India.[9][10] Later she did her schooling in Nirmala Convent School in Mysore.[9][11] She is the younger of two daughters of TV Gopinath and VC Vijayalakshmi, both of whom hail from Kannur, Kerala.[12]. Her Mother, VC Vijayalakshmi, is from the Vediyara Chandrothu Family, a sub-branch of the Thiruvithamkoor/Kolathiri Family, which is originally from Thiruvananthapuram district and Kannur district. Her Father, TC Gopinath, is related to the late A. K. Gopalan.[13]
She received 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 further completed an M.A. degree at the University of Washington in 1996. In 2001, she obtained her Ph.D. degree at Princeton University, where her thesis advisors included Professor Ben Bernanke (former chair of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve of the United States) and Professor Ken Rogoff (former chief economist of the IMF). She was awarded the Princeton's Woodrow Wilson Fellowship Research Award while doing her doctoral research at Princeton.[14]
Career
In October 2018, Gita Gopinath was appointed chief economist of the International Monetary Fund.[6] Gita Gopinath is the John Zwaanstra Professor of International Studies and of Economics at Harvard University. She is 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 state (India), a co-editor at the American Economic Review, and a co-editor of the 2019 edition of the Handbook of International Economics.[15]
Honours
In October 2018, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) Managing Director Christine Lagarde appointed Gita Gopinath as Economic Counsellor and Director of the IMF's Research Department.[6] In 2018, she was elected a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the Econometric Society. Foreign Policy named her one of the Top Global Thinkers in 2019.[16] In 2017, she received the Distinguished Alumnus Award from the University of Washington. She 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. In 2019 she has been awarded Pravasi Bharatiya Samman, the highest honor for a person of Indian origin, by the President of India.
Personal life
Gopinath's husband Iqbal Singh Dhaliwal is the Global Executive Director of the Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab (J-PAL), a center at the Department of Economics of Massachusetts Institute of Technology, which was co-founded by Abhijit Banerjee and Esther Duflo, the winners of the 2019 Nobel Prize in Economics.[17] Born in a Sikh family in Amritsar, and a classmate of Gita at the Delhi School of Economics, he began his career in public service by topping the all-India civil services examination 1995 and joining the elite Indian Administrative Service (IAS)[18], which he left after six years. His postings in Tamil Nadu state included as Sub-collector in Tirunelveli District and Gobichettipalayam, Deputy Secretary of the Public Department, Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Texco corporation, and Director of the ex-servicemen's welfare department. He also worked in the private sector in strategy and economic consulting before joining MIT in 2009.[19] He holds an MPA from Princeton University and MA in Economics from Delhi School of Economics. They have a son named Rohil and live in the U.S
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 and has worked as the Economic Adviser to the Chief Minister of Kerala.[4][5][6]
Gita was appointed as chief economist of the International Monetary Fund in October 2018.[7][8] Her research focuses on International Finance and Macroeconomics.
Early life and education
Gita was born on 8 December 1971 in Kolkata, India.[9][10] Later she did her schooling in Nirmala Convent School in Mysore.[9][11] She is the younger of two daughters of TV Gopinath and VC Vijayalakshmi, both of whom hail from Kannur, Kerala.[12]. Her Mother, VC Vijayalakshmi, is from the Vediyara Chandrothu Family, a sub-branch of the Thiruvithamkoor/Kolathiri Family, which is originally from Thiruvananthapuram district and Kannur district. Her Father, TC Gopinath, is related to the late A. K. Gopalan.[13]
She received 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 further completed an M.A. degree at the University of Washington in 1996. In 2001, she obtained her Ph.D. degree at Princeton University, where her thesis advisors included Professor Ben Bernanke (former chair of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve of the United States) and Professor Ken Rogoff (former chief economist of the IMF). She was awarded the Princeton's Woodrow Wilson Fellowship Research Award while doing her doctoral research at Princeton.[14]
Career
In October 2018, Gita Gopinath was appointed chief economist of the International Monetary Fund.[6] Gita Gopinath is the John Zwaanstra Professor of International Studies and of Economics at Harvard University. She is 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 state (India), a co-editor at the American Economic Review, and a co-editor of the 2019 edition of the Handbook of International Economics.[15]
Honours
In October 2018, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) Managing Director Christine Lagarde appointed Gita Gopinath as Economic Counsellor and Director of the IMF's Research Department.[6] In 2018, she was elected a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the Econometric Society. Foreign Policy named her one of the Top Global Thinkers in 2019.[16] In 2017, she received the Distinguished Alumnus Award from the University of Washington. She 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. In 2019 she has been awarded Pravasi Bharatiya Samman, the highest honor for a person of Indian origin, by the President of India.
Personal life
Gopinath's husband Iqbal Singh Dhaliwal is the Global Executive Director of the Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab (J-PAL), a center at the Department of Economics of Massachusetts Institute of Technology, which was co-founded by Abhijit Banerjee and Esther Duflo, the winners of the 2019 Nobel Prize in Economics.[17] Born in a Sikh family in Amritsar, and a classmate of Gita at the Delhi School of Economics, he began his career in public service by topping the all-India civil services examination 1995 and joining the elite Indian Administrative Service (IAS)[18], which he left after six years. His postings in Tamil Nadu state included as Sub-collector in Tirunelveli District and Gobichettipalayam, Deputy Secretary of the Public Department, Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Texco corporation, and Director of the ex-servicemen's welfare department. He also worked in the private sector in strategy and economic consulting before joining MIT in 2009.[19] He holds an MPA from Princeton University and MA in Economics from Delhi School of Economics. They have a son named Rohil and live in the U.S
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