Gita Gopinath

Gita Gopinath
First Deputy Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund
Incumbent
Assumed office 21 January 2022
President	Kristalina Georgieva
Preceded by	Geoffrey Okamoto
Chief Economist of the International Monetary Fund
In office 1 January 2019 – 21 January 2022
President	Kristalina Georgieva
Preceded by	Maurice Obstfeld
Succeeded by	Pierre-Olivier Gourinchas
Personal details
Born	(1971-12-08) 8 December 1971 (age 52) Kolkata, India
Nationality	American
Spouse	Iqbal Singh Dhaliwal
Relations	A. K. Gopalan Nambiar
Children	1
Education	University of Delhi (BA, MA) University of Washington (MA) Princeton University (PhD)
Awards	Pravasi Bharatiya Samman
Academic career
Institution	University of Chicago Booth School of Business Harvard University
Doctoral advisor	Kenneth Rogoff Ben Bernanke Pierre-Olivier Gourinchas

Gita Gopinath (born 8 December 1971)^[1] is an Indian-American economist who has served as the first deputy managing director of the International Monetary Fund (IMF), since 21 January 2022. She had previously served as chief economist of the IMF between 2019 and 2022.

Prior to joining the IMF, Gopinath had a two-decade-long career as an academic including at the economics department of Harvard University where she was the John Zwaanstra Professor of International Studies and Economics (2005–2022) and earlier an assistant professor at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business (2001–05) . She is also a co-director of the international finance and macroeconomics program at the National Bureau of Economic Research and has earlier worked as the honorary economic adviser to the chief minister of Kerala.

Gopinath was appointed as chief economist of the IMF in October 2018 by its managing director Christine Lagarde. In an interview with Trevor Noah on The Daily Show, she named the worldwide recession of 2020 as "The Great Lockdown". In December 2021, IMF Managing Director Kristalina Georgieva appointed her the first deputy managing director of the IMF, which is the organization's number-two position.