Gita Gopinath Tapped for New IMF Role

Gita Gopinath, the former director of the NBER’s International Finance and Macroeconomics Program, has been tapped to become the first deputy managing director of the International Monetary Fund in early 2022. Gopinath has been on leave from the NBER, where she is a research associate, and from Harvard University, where she is the John Zwaanstra Professor of International Studies and Economics, since 2019, when she became Chief Economist at the IMF. The first deputy managing director is the second highest ranking official at the organization.