Gita Gopinath will leave the IMF

Gita Gopinath is set to leave the IMF shortly.

 Gita Gopinath will leave the IMF

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• The story: The Chief Economist and Director of the Research Department of International Monetary Fund (IMF), Gita Gopinath, would leave her job in January 2022, and return to the prestigious Harvard University. The Indian-American economist had joined the IMF in January 2019, as the Chief Economist.
• Personal background: She was the first-ever woman Chief Economist of the IMF. Gita was born in December 1971 to Malayalee parents, and did her schooling in Kolkata. She completed her graduation from the Lady Shri Ram College of Commerce in Delhi, and did her Masters from the Delhi School of Economics and University of Washington. She then completed Ph.D in economics from Princeton University in 2001. She was guided by Ben Bernanke, Kenneth Rogoff, and Pierre-Olivier Gourinchas. In the year 2001, she joined the University of Chicago as an Assistant Professor and moved to Harvard in 2005. In the year 2010, she became a tenured Professor there. She is only the third woman in Harvard to be a tenured professor at economics department, and also the first Indian following Nobel laureate Amartya Sen to hold this position at Harvard.
• EXAM QUESTIONS: (1) Explain the recent controversy that erupted on the Ease of Doing Business ranking. (2) Name five people of Indian origin who are serving in top positions in global institutions.

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