Harvard professor Gita Gopinath appointed IMF's chief economist

She would be the first Indian to be occupying the coveted post at IMF after former RBI governor Raghuram Rajan

Alongside guiding Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan on economic policies, Gita Gopinath, or GG as she is popularly called, has another role to play by the end of this year — to advise the International Monetary Fund (IMF) on policy issues.

She was named IMF chief economist by its managing director Christine Lagarde on Monday.  

Gopinath, who will succeed Maurice (Maury) Obstfeld, has been a bitter critic of demonetisation, but not of the other big decision of the Narendra Modi government — the goods and services tax (GST).

She had questioned the note ban, saying the move should not have