IMF Deputy Gopinath to Leave for Harvard in 2025

Gita Gopinath, First Deputy Managing Director and No. 2 official at the International Monetary Fund (IMF), will step down at the end of August 2025 to rejoin Harvard University as the inaugural Gregory and Ania Coffey Professor of Economics. Gopinath, who joined the IMF in 2019 as its first female chief economist and was promoted in 2022, played a pivotal role during the COVID-19 pandemic and other global economic challenges. Her departure comes nearly seven years after joining the IMF and more than a year before the usual end of the five-year term. IMF Managing Director Kristalina Georgieva praised her exceptional leadership and said a successor will be announced in due course. Gopinath's exit provides the U.S. Treasury an opportunity to influence the selection of her replacement at a critical time for international economic policy. Before her IMF tenure, Gopinath was a professor at Harvard and the University of Chicago.