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Gita Gopinath to Depart IMF for Inaugural Coffey Professorship at Harvard

Her appointment caps a nearly seven-year stint guiding IMF surveillance alongside policy analyses.

First Deputy Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) Gita Gopinath participates in a seminar during the 2025 annual IMF/World Bank Spring Meetings in Washington, D.C., U.S., April 25, 2025. REUTERS/Elizabeth Frantz/File Photo
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Overview

  • Kristalina Georgieva announced Gopinath will step down as first deputy managing director at the end of August.
  • Gopinath will assume the newly established Gregory and Ania Coffey Professorship in Harvard’s Department of Economics on September 1.
  • She joined the IMF in January 2019 as its first female chief economist and became first deputy managing director in January 2022.
  • Gopinath led the Fund’s multilateral analysis of fiscal, monetary and trade policy and played a key role in country programs for Argentina and Ukraine.
  • The IMF said it will name a successor to Gopinath in due course, marking a significant leadership transition at the Fund.