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Gita Gopinath to leave IMF to return to Harvard

IMF Managing Director Kristalina Georgieva will name a successor to Gopinath in "due course," the IMF said.

FILE PHOTO: 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

Gita Gopinath, the No. 2 official at the International Monetary Fund, will leave her post at the end of August to return to Harvard University, the IMF said in a statement on July 21.

IMF Managing Director Kristalina Georgieva will name a successor to Gopinath in "due course," the IMF said.

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Gopinath joined the fund in 2019 as chief economist - the first woman to serve in that role - and was promoted to the role of first deputy managing director in January 2022.

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