Gita Gopinath, who has recently been appointed as the nee chief economist of International Monetary Fund, is likely to resign from the existing post of financial advisor to the Chief Minister of Kerala.
According to government sources, “She may not be able to continue as the financial advisor as she was appointed the chief economist by the IMF. But there is still time to discuss about the same. And she hasn’t reacted to the news if she would continue or not.”
Gita was appointed as the economic advisor to the CM in 2016 when he visited US for treatment and met her. When she was being appointed then, she was a professor and working in the academic industry.
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Ms Gopinath, who currently serves as the John Zwaanstra Professor of International Studies and of Economics at Harvard University, is also a member of the economic advisory panel of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York. She has become the second Indian after former RBI governor Raghuram Rajan to hold the position. She will succeed Maurice Obstfeld at IMF, who announced his retirement in July.