Gita Gopinath: an interview with the former second in command at the IMF

October 23, 2025, Interview: "The coronavirus pandemic, war in Europe and the perpetual problem that is Argentina have made the last few years some of the most tumultuous in the International Monetary Fund’s history. As the fund’s chief economist, then as First Deputy Managing Director, Gita Gopinath was in the middle of the upheaval. Now she’s at Harvard and free to speak candidly about what it was like  to be in the IMF leadership, dealing with a tense and fractured geopolitical backdrop, as well as critics in the Trump administration."