Before Gopinath’s final speech, Gaurinchas succeeded him as Chief Economist of the IMF

Current IMF Chief Economists will discuss new stress omicrons, supply disruptions, high inflation, policy pivots, among other things.

“Join us for our updates on the World Economic Outlook. This will be my last time before the wonderful @pogourinchas takes over,” Gopinath tweeted.

The International Monetary Fund had earlier appointed Pierre-Olivier Gaurinchas to make Gita Gopinath its chief economist.

Gopinath, the first woman to serve as the IMF’s chief economist, is set to take over from Geoffrey Okamoto as the institution’s first deputy managing director on January 21.

“I am very pleased to announce that Pierre-Olivier will be joining us as the next Chief Economist of the Fund. He brings to our work an illustrious track record of scholarship and intellectual leadership in key macroeconomic sectors – Global From imbalances and capital flows to the stability of the international monetary and financial system, and more recently, to economic policies for the pandemic era,” said IMF Managing Director Kristalina Georgieva.

He described him as an outstanding macroeconomic scholar and businessman with “his finger on the pulse of global economic issues”.

He will begin his job as the new Chief Economist of the IMF on January 24, initially on a part-time basis as he ends some prior teaching commitments, transitioning to full-time on April 1, 2022.

Gaurinchas have had a long and distinguished career in the education world. He joined UC Berkeley in 2003 and is currently the Faculty Director of the Clauson Center for International Business and Policy at Berkeley and the University of California at SK and Angela Chan Professor of Global Management. Mr. Gourinchas was also an assistant professor of economics at Princeton University from 1998 to 2003, and before that, he was an assistant professor of economics at Stanford University’s Graduate School of Business.