Gita Gopinath is great choice for IMF Chief Economist: Mohamed A El-Erian

Harvard's Gita Gopinath will bring fresh thinking to challenges of productivity, debt, capital flows and exchange-rate systems

Having followed Gita Gopinath’s work closely for several years, I am delighted the International Monetary Fund appointed her to head its influential research department as chief economist.

Gopinath, a professor of International Studies and Economics at Harvard University and co-director of the International Finance and Macroeconomics program at the National Bureau of Economic Research, brings expertise, insights and cognitive diversity to the IMF. Her appointment comes at an important time, as the fund seeks to evolve its thinking and practices to better reflect realities on the ground, particularly the two-way causal relationship between macroeconomic and financial issues.

Trade, productivity, debt,