Gita Gopinath

Who is Gita Gopinath?

Gita Gopinath is a professor at the economics department of Harvard University. She received her PhD from Princeton University. She has done work on the sovereign debt defaults in Europe.

Gopinath was born in Mysore, India. Her father, TV Gopinath is a farmer and entrepreneur in Mysore. Her husband and former classmate Iqbal Dhaliwal is a director of policy at Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab at Department of Economics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Gopinath lives in Weston, Massachusetts, with her husband and son.