Gita Gopinath bids farewell to IMF as she returns to academia

THE International Monetary Fund (IMF) Managing Director, Kristalina Georgieva, has announced that Gita Gopinath, the current First Deputy Managing Director (FDMD), will be leaving the organisation at the end of August.

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After more than four years at the IME, where she served as chief economist before her promotion to FDMD in January 2022, Gopinath is set to return to her academic roots as the inaugural Gregory and Ania Coffey Professor of Economics at Harvard University.

Georgieva said Gopinath has been an outstanding colleague—an exceptional intellectual leader, dedicated to the mission and members of the Fund, and a fabulous manager, always showing genuine care for the professional standing and wellbeing of the IMF staff.

"She came to the Fund as a highly respected academic in macroeconomics and international finance," Georgieva said.