Gita Gopinath
Gita Gopinath is a professor at the economics department of Harvard University. She has done work on price setting across currencies and the sovereign debt defaults in Europe.
Gopinath was born in Mysore, India. Her father, TV Gopinath is a farmer and entrepreneur in Mysore. Her husband and former classmate Iqbal Dhaliwal is a director of policy at Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab at Department of Economics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Gopinath lives in Weston, Massachusetts, with her husband and son.
Education
Gopinath holds a B.A. from Lady Shriram College, University of Delhi (1992), M.A. from the Delhi School of Economics (1994). She completed her M.A. from the University of Washington (1996). In 2001, she completed her Ph.D from Princeton University, under the mentorship of Ben Bernanke (former chairman of the Federal Reserve) and Kenneth Rogoff (a former director of research at the International Monetary Fund).
In 2011, she was chosen as one of the Young Global Leaders by the World Economic Forum.
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