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The International Monetary Fund (IMF) announced on Monday the appointment of the French Pierre-Olivier Gourinchas as its new chief economist and director of studies, replacing Gita Gopinath, who is to become the institution’s number two.
A professor at the University of California-Berkeley since 2003, Gourinchas is also responsible for the programs on finance and international macroeconomics at the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER), in the United States.
Gourinchas already knows the IMF because he was editor-in-chief of the Economic Magazine of the institution (IMF Economic Review) from 2009 to 2016.
Gourinchas will assume his new position on January 24 part-time at first, to be able to fulfill some of his teaching commitments, and full-time as of April 1.
“He has demonstrated his capacity for scholarship and thought leadership in the macroeconomic fields essential to our work, from global imbalances to capital flows to the stability of the international financial system and, more recently, in the economic policies of the United States. era of the pandemic “, underlines the director of the IMF, Kristalina Georgieva, in a statement.
“Pierre-Olivier is recognized for his agility in detecting emerging trends and for his knowledge of analyzing the most pressing economic problems,” he adds,
Originally from Montpellier (southeast), Gourinchas He has a diploma from the Ecole Polytechnique, the School of Higher Social Studies and the National School of Roads of France, as well as from MIT University in the United States. He has also worked at the prestigious Stanford and Princeton universities before coming to Berkeley.
In 2007 the Frenchman won the Bernacer award in Germany for the best European economist under 40 years of age in the macroeconomics and finance sector, and in 2008 the award for the best economist under 40 years of age in France, awarded by the newspaper The world and the Circle of Economists.
He was also a member in 2012 and 2013 of the French Economic Analysis Council, a body linked to the prime minister that conducts economic analysis for the government.
It is not the first time that a Frenchman has held the position of chief economist of the IMF. From 2008 to 2015 he performed it Olivier Blanchard, thesis director of Pierre-Olivier Gourinchas.
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