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Gita Gopinath receives Kiel Institute Bernhard Harms Prize 2023
Gopinath is first deputy managing director of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and previously served as the fund’s chief economist.
Gita Gopinath / Image - Kiel Institute for the World Economy
Economist Gita Gopinath has been honoured with Bernhard Harms Prize by the Kiel Institute for the World Economy. The award was presented during the Geoeconomics Conference held in the historic “Weltsaal” of the Federal Foreign Office in Berlin.
Moritz Schularick, president of the Kiel Institute, praised Gopinath “as one of the world’s most influential scholars in the fields of international finance and international macroeconomics.” Şebnem Kalemli-Özcan, professor of Economics at University of Maryland called Gopinath “a superb scholar and an influential policy maker.”
Currently , the first deputy managing director of the International Monetary Fund (IMF), Gopinath previously served as the fund’s chief economist.
As the chief economist of the IMF, she played a central role in navigating the global economy through the tumultuous years of the COVID-19 pandemic. Gopinath developed a bold plan to accelerate global vaccination efforts and advocated tirelessly for greater international cooperation.
Simultaneously, she co-led the effort to reshape the IMF’s approach to help countries manage international capital flows. This resulted in the innovative “Integrated Policy Framework,” which has set a new standard in policy analysis and government guidance worldwide.
Before joining the IMF, Gopinath had a distinguished academic career, a release by the Kiel Institute for the World Economy noted. Between 2005-2022 she served as a professor at Harvard University and prior to that, she was an assistant professor of economics at the University of Chicago’s Booth School of Business
Gopinath has earned her Ph.D. in economics from Princeton University, after completing her graduation from Lady Shri Ram College, and masters from the Delhi School of Economics and the University of Washington.
“I am honored to receive a prize that champions scholarship in international economics and global relations. At a time when countries are drifting further apart such scholarship is critically important, and this conference on geoeconomics is particularly welcome,” Gopinath said.
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