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Gita Gopinath

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Gita Gopinath (born 8 December 1971) is an Indian-American economist who has served as the first deputy managing director of the International Monetary Fund (IMF), since 21 January 2022. She had previously served as chief economist of the IMF between 2019 and 2022. Prior to joining the IMF, Gopinath had a two-decade-long career as an academic including at the economics department of Harvard University where she was the John Zwaanstra Professor of International Studies and Economics (2005–2022) and earlier an assistant professor at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business (2001–05) . Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Gita Gopinath has received more than 3,136,601 page views. Her biography is available in 28 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 24 in 2019). Gita Gopinath is the 387th most popular economist (down from 362nd in 2019), the 1,027th most popular biography from India (down from 960th in 2019) and the 6th most popular Indian Economist.

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Among ECONOMISTS

Among economists, Gita Gopinath ranks 387 out of 414Before her are Michael Albert, Sevil Shhaideh, Carlos Moedas, Inger Andersen, Corinne Maier, and Sławomir Skrzypek. After her are Paul Douglas, Guy Standing, Andrei Shleifer, Eric Lander, Raghuram Rajan, and Steve Keen.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1971, Gita Gopinath ranks 519Before her are Carlos Núñez Muñoz, Kâzım Koyuncu, Leslie Benzies, Rajpal Yadav, Jerzy Brzęczek, and Tom Steels. After her are Jeff Loomis, Till Brönner, André Bergdølmo, Aleksey Ovchinin, Narine Abgaryan, and Bobby Julich.

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In India

Among people born in India, Gita Gopinath ranks 1,027 out of 1,861Before her are Monisha Kaltenborn (1971), Charles Correa (1930), Kishori Amonkar (1932), Rajpal Yadav (1971), Mehboob Khan (1907), and Vishnuvardhan (1950). After her are Ravi Shankar Prasad (1954), Mohammed Zahur Khayyam (1927), Zubeida (1911), Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw (1953), Ravi Shastri (1962), and Mohanlal (1960).

Among ECONOMISTS In India

Among economists born in India, Gita Gopinath ranks 6Before her are Amartya Sen (1933), Mahbub ul Haq (1934), Abhijit Banerjee (1961), Jagdish Bhagwati (1934), and Avinash Dixit (1944). After her are Raghuram Rajan (1963), Bina Agarwal (1951), and Kshama Sawant (1973).