IMF's Indian-origin First Deputy MD Gita to step down, return to Harvard University
International Monetary Fund (IMF) First Deputy MD Gita Gopinath will step down at the end of August and return to Harvard University, IMF said in a statement. IMF MD Kristalina Georgieva will name a successor to Gopinath in "due course", it added. Gopinath had first joined IMF in 2019 as the organisation's first woman Chief Economist.