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2025 Nobel Laureate in Economic Sciences | Professor at Collège de France, INSEAD & the London School of Economics | Innovation, Competition & Growth Economist
Gita Gopinath
Former First Deputy Managing Director, IMF | First Woman IMF Chief Economist | Professor of Economics, Harvard University
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Few economists have seen the world economy from the inside like Gita Gopinath. As the IMF's first female Chief Economist and later its First Deputy Managing Director, she helped guide global policy through the pandemic, an inflation surge, and the war in Ukraine. Now back at Harvard, she gives leaders a clear, balanced view of growth, inflation, debt, trade, and the economic impact of AI.
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Gita Gopinath biography
Economics speaker Gita Gopinath is one of the world’s most influential macroeconomists and the former First Deputy Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund. She is the Gregory and Ania Coffey Professor of Economics at Harvard University, and from 2019 to 2025 she served in the IMF’s top leadership, first as the Fund’s first female Chief Economist and then as its second-highest official.
As Chief Economist from 2019 to 2022, Gopinath led the IMF’s research department through the Covid-19 crisis, overseeing 13 editions of the World Economic Outlook. She co-authored a widely cited plan for ending the pandemic and helped develop the IMF’s Integrated Policy Framework for managing capital flows and exchange rates. As First Deputy Managing Director from 2022 to 2025, she oversaw the Fund’s surveillance work and major lending programs, including those for Argentina and Ukraine, and represented the IMF at the G7 and G20.
From Harvard to the IMF and Back
As a Harvard economics professor, Gopinath has produced research on international finance and macroeconomics that shapes how policymakers understand the global economic outlook. Her work on the dominant role of the US dollar in trade and finance, exchange rates, capital flows, sovereign debt, and financial crises is widely cited by central banks and governments. She co-edits the Handbook of International Economics and previously co-edited the American Economic Review. She has also served on the economic advisory panel of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York and is a member of the Group of Thirty.
She is an elected fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the Econometric Society. India honored her with the Pravasi Bharatiya Samman, its highest award for the Indian diaspora, and she has been named one of the Financial Times’ 25 most influential women and a Top Global Thinker by Foreign Policy. Born in India, she earned degrees from Lady Shri Ram College, the Delhi School of Economics, and the University of Washington before completing her PhD at Princeton University.
As a speaker, Gita Gopinath brings the authority of someone who has managed the world economy through a pandemic, an inflation surge, and a major war. She explains growth, inflation, interest rates, debt, trade fragmentation, and the economic impact of AI with clarity and balance. Boards, investors, and business leaders leave with a sharper understanding of global risks and a practical view of how to plan for them.
Gita Gopinath Speaking Videos
Rubenstein Lecture | Gita Gopinath, Harvard Economics Professor, former IMF
Gita Gopinath Drops Stunning Figures At Davos, Says Pollution Directly Impacting India's GDP
Gita Gopinath Speaking Topics
Drawing on six years in the IMF’s top leadership, Gopinath gives senior audiences a clear outlook for the global economy. She explains where growth is likely to come from, why inflation has proved stubborn in some economies, what the path of interest rates means for companies and investors, and which risks deserve the most attention. Leaders leave with a practical framework for reading the economic signals that matter to their plans.
Public debt has reached levels not seen in decades, just as interest rates have risen. Gopinath examines how governments and markets will manage this new reality, which countries face the greatest pressure, and how fiscal stress could spill over into financial markets, exchange rates, and business conditions. The session is especially relevant for financial institutions, investors, and boards.
Artificial intelligence could lift productivity and transform labor markets, but its benefits may be unevenly shared. Building on the IMF’s research on AI and jobs, Gopinath explores how AI may change the macroeconomic outlook, which workers and countries are most exposed, and what policymakers and business leaders can do to capture the gains while managing the risks to employment and inequality.
Trade tensions, new tariffs, and rival economic blocs are reshaping global supply chains and capital flows. Gopinath, whose research on the dominant role of the US dollar is widely cited, explains what fragmentation means for trade, investment, emerging markets, and financial stability, and how organizations can build resilience and plan for a range of geopolitical scenarios.
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Booking Gita Gopinath gives your audience the insight of one of the most respected economists of her generation. As the IMF’s first female Chief Economist and later its First Deputy Managing Director, she helped steer global economic policy through the pandemic, the inflation surge, and the war in Ukraine, and she now brings that experience back to Harvard. She explains complex issues such as inflation, debt, the dollar, trade fragmentation, and AI with clarity and balance, which makes her an excellent fit for board meetings, investment conferences, financial services events, and leadership summits. To book Gita Gopinath, contact Aurum Speakers Bureau and one of our founders will respond within 24 hours.
Yes. Gita Gopinath became the first woman to serve as Chief Economist of the International Monetary Fund when she took the role in 2019. In 2022 she was appointed First Deputy Managing Director, the Fund’s second-highest position, and she held both responsibilities until she returned to Harvard in 2025.
Gita Gopinath returned to Harvard University in 2025 as the Gregory and Ania Coffey Professor of Economics. She continues her research on international finance and macroeconomics, including the role of the US dollar, exchange rates, capital flows, and debt, and she co-edits the Handbook of International Economics.
Gita Gopinath speaks on the global economic outlook, inflation and interest rates, public debt and fiscal risk, AI and productivity, geopolitics and trade fragmentation, tariffs, emerging markets, and the role of the US dollar in the global financial system. She tailors her sessions for boards, investors, financial institutions, and corporate leadership teams. Contact Aurum Speakers Bureau to check her availability for your event.
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