Gita Gopinath

Quick Facts

Full Name	Gita Gopinath
Occupation	Economist
Date Of Birth	Dec 8, 1971(1971-12-08)
Age	53
Birthplace	Mysore
Country	India
Horoscope	Aquarius

Gita Gopinath Biography

Gita Gopinath is one of the most popular and richest Economist who was born on December 8, 1971 in Mysore, India. Gopinath was born on 8 December 1971 in Kannur, India. She is the younger of two daughters of T.V. Gopinath and V.C. Vijayalakshmi, both of whom hail from Kannur, Kerala. Her father, T.V. Gopinath, is related to the late A. K. Gopalan.

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. 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. 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.

Gopinath was appointed as Chief Economist of the International Monetary Fund in October 2018. In an interview with Trevor Noah on The Daily Show, she named the worldwide recession of 2020 as “The Great Lockdown.”

Gopinath’s husband, Iqbal Singh Dhaliwal, is the Global Executive Director at Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab at the Department of Economics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He began his career in public service as a member of the Indian Administrative Service (IAS), which he left later. He was the first rank holder of UPSC civil service 1995. His first posting was as Sub-collector in Tirunelveli District. They have a son named Rohil.

Gita Gopinath Net Worth

Gita Gopinath is one of the richest Economist from India. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Gita Gopinath 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

Gita Gopinath (born 8 December 1971) is an Indian American economist who has been the Chief Economist of the International Monetary Fund since 2019. In that role she is the Director of IMF’s Research Department and the Economic Counsellor of the Fund.

Gopinath studied at Nirmala Convent School in Mysore. 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. She earned her Ph.D. in economics from Princeton University in 2001 after completing a doctoral dissertation titled “Three essays on international capital flows: a search theoretic approach,” under the supervision of Ben Bernanke and Kenneth Rogoff. She was awarded the Princeton’s Woodrow Wilson Fellowship Research Award while doing her doctoral research at Princeton.

In October 2018, Gita Gopinath was appointed chief economist of the International Monetary Fund. 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.

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Who is Gita Gopinath Dating?

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Facts & Trivia

Gita Ranked on the list of most popular Economist. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in India. Gita Gopinath celebrates birthday on December 8 of every year.

Top Facts about Gita Gopinath

1. Gita Gopinath is the first woman to serve as Chief Economist of the IMF.
2. She was born in India in 1971 and later became a US citizen.
3. Gopinath is a professor at Harvard University’s economics department.
4. Her research focuses on international finance and macroeconomics.
5. In 2019, she was named one of Time Magazine’s 100 most influential people.
6. Gopinath has published numerous articles in top economic journals.
7. She received her PhD from Princeton University in 2001.
8. Gopinath has served as an advisor to several central banks around the world.
9. She is a recipient of several prestigious awards for her contributions to economics.
10. Gopinath advocates for policies that promote inclusive growth and reduce inequality.

Who is the current Chief Economist of IMF?

NameTermUniversity at appointment
Maurice Obstfeld| 8 September 2015 – 31 December 2018| University of California, Berkeley
Gita Gopinath| 1 January 2019 – 21 January 2022| Harvard University
Pierre-Olivier Gourinchas| 24 January 2022 – present| University of California, Berkeley

How much does Gita Gopinath make?

Gita Gopinath is an American Economist who is currently serving as the Chief Economist of the International Monetary Fund (IMF). Senior Economist salaries at IMF ranges from $130,000 – $275,994. Gita’s estimated salary is $1,74,368 at IMF. She has an estimated Net Worth of around $3 Million.

Who is Gita Gopinath husband?

Iqbal Singh

Is Gita Gopinath is a professor?

Gopinath was the John Zwaanstra Professor of International Studies and of Economics at Harvard University’s economics department (2005-22) and before that she was an assistant professor of economics at the University of Chicago’s Booth School of Business (2001-05).

Who is the first female chief economist of IMF?

India-born Gita Gopinath has become the first woman and second Indian to feature on the ‘wall of former chief economists’ of the International Monetary Fund (IMF). Gopinath was appointed as IMF Chief Economist in October 2018 and was later promoted as the IMF’s First Deputy Managing Director in December last year.