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title: "Who will replace Gita Gopinath as IMF’s new Chief Economist?"  
description: "Who will replace Gita Gopinath as IMF’s new Chief Economist?"  
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published: 2022-02-03  
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# Who will replace Gita Gopinath as IMF’s new Chief Economist?

Who will [replace](https://yourviews.mindstick.com/view/88425/will-ai-replace-more-jobs-than-it-creates) Gita Gopinath as [IMF](https://yourviews.mindstick.com/view/86408/pakistan-is-again-ready-to-ask-for-money-from-the-imf-to-build-it-s-economy)’s new Chief Economist?

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## Answers

### Answer by Stuti Gupta

> **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.**

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**[Pierre-Olivier Gourinchas](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/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**](https://answers.mindstick.com/qa/62180/who-is-known-as-the-father-of-economics), specifically **global macroeconomics and global finance**. Gourinchas was awarded the **Prize for the Best Young Economist in France in 2008.** \
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Pierre-Olivier Gourinchas attended the **École Polytechnique**, **École des Ponts et Chaussées, and Massachusetts Institute of [Technology](https://answers.mindstick.com/qa/95381/what-is-the-name-of-the-portable-app-linked-device-created-by-the-indian-institute-of-technology-kanpur-for-soil-testing),** 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](https://answers.mindstick.com/qa/51450/what-failure-of-classical-economics-did-the-great-depression-highlight)**, and the co-director of the **[National](https://answers.mindstick.com/qa/95450/which-indian-movie-won-the-best-film-award-in-the-asian-film-competition-category-in-the-recently-concluded-20th-dhaka-international-film-festival-in-dhaka) Bureau of Economic Research's International Finance and Macroeconomics department**. He is an Econometric Society Fellow.


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