The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has named Pierre-Olivier Gourinchas, a French-born economist at the University of California-Berkeley, as its next chief economist, succeeding Gita Gopinath, who is of Indian heritage.
Pierre-Olivier Gourinchas is a French economist. He is the University of California, Berkeley's S.K. as well as Angela Chan Professor of Management. He also runs the Clausen Center for International Business and Policy and is linked with the Haas School of Business. His research interests are on macroeconomics, specifically global macroeconomics and global finance. Gourinchas was awarded the Prize for the Best Young Economist in France in 2008.
Pierre-Olivier Gourinchas attended the École Polytechnique, École des Ponts et Chaussées, and Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he earned a Ph.D. with a thesis on exchange rates and consumption under the supervision of Olivier Blanchard, Ricardo Caballero, and Rudiger Dornbusch. Gourinchas has held academic posts at the Stanford Graduate School of Business, Princeton University, and - since 2003 - the University of California, Berkeley, where he is now the Director of the Clausen Center for International Business and Policy. Gourinchas is also the editor-in-chief of the IMF Economic Review, the managing editor of the Journal of International Economics, and the co-director of the National Bureau of Economic Research's International Finance and Macroeconomics department. He is an Econometric Society Fellow.
