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Gita Gopinath to Step Down as IMF Deputy Managing Director to Rejoin Harvard

She will assume Harvard’s newly established Gregory and Ania Coffey Professorship on September 1, prompting the IMF to appoint her replacement in due course

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

  • Gopinath will leave the IMF at the end of August 2025 and return to Harvard University as the inaugural Gregory and Ania Coffey Professor of Economics
  • She joined the IMF in January 2019 as its first female Chief Economist and was promoted to First Deputy Managing Director in January 2022
  • During her tenure she oversaw the World Economic Outlook, co-authored the Pandemic Plan to guide global COVID-19 response and spearheaded the Integrated Policy Framework
  • Managing Director Kristalina Georgieva lauded her leadership in multilateral surveillance and policy advice through crises such as the pandemic, geopolitical conflicts and inflation shocks
  • The IMF will name a successor “in due course,” marking a key leadership transition influenced by major shareholders including the US Treasury