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Times of Oman
22-07-2025
- Business
- Times of Oman
Gita Gopinath returns to Harvard as professor after historic leadership at IMF
New Delhi: International Monetary Fund Deputy Managing Director Gita Gopinath has announced that she will return to academics and rejoin Harvard University as a professor in the Economics Department. The Harvard Gazette revealed that Gopinath will be joining the Harvard faculty this fall, following her return from a long-term public service leave of absence. "I now return to my roots in academia," said Gopinath in a post on X. "I look forward to continuing to push the research frontier in international finance and macroeconomics to address global challenges, and to training the next generation of economists," she wrote. Gopinath first arrived on Harvard Campus as a visiting professor in 2005. Beginning September 1, she will assume the newly created position of Gregory and Ania Coffey Professor of Economics at Harvard, with a new slate of course offerings available next spring. Gopinath served first as Chief Economist from 2019 to 2022 and subsequently as First Deputy Managing Director (FDMD) from January 2022 until her resignation in August 2025. David M. Cutler, dean of social science and Otto Eckstein Professor of Applied Economics, said that, "Gita's academic work has fundamentally shaped our understanding of exchange rates, international capital flows, and the global financial architecture." Cutler further added, "Having her back strengthens our standing as a top university for international macroeconomics. She is also an exceptional teacher and intellectual partner. We can't wait to welcome her home." According to The Harvard Gazette, Gita Gopinath, as chief economist, directed the IMF's research department and was responsible for its "World Economic Outlook" publication, which helps guide economic policy decisions across countries. She also co-authored a pandemic plan that hastened global cooperation on COVID-19 vaccine access and spearheaded an "Integrated Policy Framework" that now underpins the IMF's policy advice to countries on their response to international capital flows. IMF Managing Director Kristalina Georgieva also commended Gita's work. Georgieva said, "[Gita's] analytical rigour was paired with practical policy advice to the membership during an especially challenging period, which included the pandemic, wars, the cost-of-living crisis, and major shifts in the global trading system."
Asharq Al-Awsat
15-06-2025
- Business
- Asharq Al-Awsat
France Says Supports Harvard, Welcomes Foreign Students
France's foreign minister on Saturday said his country supported students and staff at Harvard, after President Donald Trump tried to ban foreign students from the prestigious US university. "We stand with universities facing the threat of government control, restriction to their funding, constraints on their curricula or research projects," Jean-Noel Barrot said during a commencement address at the high-profile HEC business school in Paris. "We stand with Harvard faculty, with Harvard students, facing unjustified stress and anxiety right now," he added in English. "Should US courts uphold decisions to ban international students, France will offer (them) a safe place to complete their degrees," he said. Universities and research facilities in the United States have come under increasing political and financial pressure under Trump, including with threats of massive federal funding cuts, said AFP Harvard has been at the forefront of Trump's campaign against top American universities after it defied his calls to submit to oversight of its curriculum, staffing, student recruitment and "viewpoint diversity". A US court last week put a temporary stay on Trump's latest effort to stop foreign students from enrolling at Harvard. A White House proclamation a day earlier had sought to bar most new international students at Harvard from entering the country, and said existing foreign enrollees risked having their visas terminated. The US government has already cut around $3.2 billion of federal grants and contracts benefiting Harvard and pledged to exclude the institution from any future federal funding. France and the European Union are seeking to encourage disgruntled researchers to relocate from the United States to Europe. European Commission head Ursula von der Leyen said last month that the EU would launch a new incentives package worth 500 million euros ($580 million) to make the 27-nation bloc "a magnet for researchers". French President Emmanuel Macron in April unveiled plans for a funding program to help national universities and other research bodies cover the cost of bringing foreign scientists to the country.
