- Kristalina Georgieva, Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund (IMF), announced her intention to appoint Pierre-Olivier Gourinchas as the Fund’s Economic Counsellor and Director of the Research Department (RES).
- He will succeed Gita Gopinath, who as previously announced, will join the Fund’s management team as First Deputy Managing Director.
- Mr. Gourinchas has had a long and distinguished career in academia. He joined UC Berkeley in 2003 and is currently the University of California at Berkeley’s Faculty Director of the Clausen Center for International Business & Policy. Pierre-Olivier Gourinchas as IMF Economic Counsellor and Head of Research Department.
