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New Delhi: Indian-American Gita Gopinath, the chief economist of the International Monetary Fund, called on Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Wednesday.
The meeting comes days after the IMF announced that she is being promoted as its First Deputy Managing Director.
Chief Economist of the IMF, @GitaGopinath called on PM @narendramodi. pic.twitter.com/2B30CMvjja
— PMO India (@PMOIndia) December 15, 2021
She would replace Geoffrey Okamoto who plans to leave the Fund early next year.
Gopinath, who was scheduled to return to her academic position at Harvard University in January 2022, has served as the IMF’s chief economist for three years.
“Chief Economist of the IMF, @GitaGopinath called on PM @narendramodi,” the Prime Minister’s Office (PMO) tweeted along with a couple of photographs from the meeting.
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