Gita Gopinath - Influential Indian Women

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 GITA GOPINATH


Gita Gopinath, an Indian American economist who has been Chief Economist at International Monetary Fund since 2019. She is the director of the IMF’s Research Department and the Economic Counsellor of the Fund. 


Early life

 Gita Gopinath was born on December 8, 1971, Kolkata, India. She studied at Nirmala Convent School in Mysore. She received a B.A. degree in 1992 and an M.A. degree in economics in 1994, both from the University of Delhi, and further completed an M.A. degree at the Washington University in 1996. She completed her Ph.D. from Princeton University. She was awarded Princeton’s Woodrow Wilson Fellowship Research Award while doing her doctoral research at Princeton.


Gita Gopinath is the John Zwaanstra Professor of International Studies and 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 economics advisory panel of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York. She is an Economic Adviser to the Chief Minister of Kerala, India. She is also a co-editor of the American Economic Review.  




Career Milestones

  • Gita was elected a fellow of the American Academy of Arts And Sciences and the Econometric Society in 2018. 

  • Foreign Policy named her one of the Top Global Thinker in 2019. 

  • She received the Distinguished Alumnus Award from Washington University. 

  • She 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.


GITA GOPINATH is an inspiration to millions of Indian women who are facing gender barriers and racism. In a field dominated by men, she shattered stereotypes to be where she is.





Article by: Tejas Hadole
Edited by: Aastha soni

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