Archive · 24 Jul 2025
Gita Gopinath Returns to Harvard After IMF Service
Gita Gopinath, a top economist, is going back to her old job at Harvard University after working at the International Monetary Fund (IMF).
She will leave her current position at the IMF in 2025 and then teach at Harvard starting in September 2025.
She used to be the main economist at the IMF and helped the world deal with big problems like the COVID-19 pandemic and wars.
Before her time at the IMF, she taught at the University of Chicago and Harvard.
Now, she will go back to researching and teaching the next generation of economists.
Gita Gopinath will leave the IMF as First Deputy Managing Director in August 2025.
She will return to Harvard University as a professor on September 1, 2025.
Gopinath previously served as the IMF's Chief Economist starting in 2019.
She earned a PhD from Princeton University in 2001 and has held positions at the University of Chicago and Harvard.
Gopinath played a key role in the IMF's response to global crises including the pandemic and war.
- Who
- Gita Gopinath, a prominent economist.
- What
- Gita Gopinath is returning to Harvard University after serving at the International Monetary Fund.
- When
- She will rejoin Harvard on September 1, 2025, after leaving the IMF in August 2025.
- Where
- Gopinath will return to Harvard University.
- Why
- Gopinath is returning to academia to continue research and train economists.
- Current Role
- First Deputy Managing Director, IMF
- Previous Role
- Chief Economist, IMF
- Next Role
- Inaugural Gregory and Ania Coffey Professor of Economics, Harvard
- Education
- PhD from Princeton University
- Start Date at Harvard
- September 1, 2025