IMF Chief Economist Gita Gopinath To Hold No.2 Post

International Monetary Fund's chief economist Gita Gopinath has been named to hold the position of IMF's second-ranking officials on December 2. She will be replacing First Deputy Managing Director Geoffrey Okamoto, who'll leave the global lender in early 2022. Notably, Gopinath was scheduled to leave the lender and return to Harvard but decided to stay. "She is the right person at the right time," said Kristalina Georgieva, IMF MD.