Gita Gopinath is the head of Harvard’s Economics Department.
AB Wire
Gita Gopinath, noted economist and professor at the Harvard University, was appointed as the financial advis0r to Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan on Thursday.
A native of Mysore, Gopinath teaches international finance and foundations of international macroeconomic policy at Harvard University and head of its Economics Department.
She is a visiting scholar at the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston, member of the Economic advisory panel of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York and managing editor of the Review of Economic Studies.
Gopinath had served as a member of the Eminent Persons Advisory Group on G20 matters of the finance ministry in India and her research papers on economic crises in Iceland and Greece have been touted as outstanding. Last year, she was named the John John Zwaanstra Professor of International Studies and Economics.