IMF hires Harvard’s Gita Gopinath as first female chief economist

MOVES- IMF joins World Bank and OECD in having women as chief economists: Speaking of the IMF: The fund has tapped Harvard Professor Gita Gopinath to become its next chief economist, the first woman to hold the role. “The move [could] challenge the fund to reshape its thinking around exchange rates,” given she is (slightly) more skeptical than the IMF on the orthodoxy of floating exchange rates, according to the Financial Times. Gopinath, who co-edited the American Economic Review, replaces Maurice Obstfeld, who will be retiring.