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Gita Gopinath is now the first deputy managing director (FDMD) of the International Monetary Fund (IMF), and will assume the role under present managing director Kristalina Georgieva. We trace her meteoric rise from being a girl from a simple Mysuru family to being a world-class economist.

Gita Gopinath's husband, Iqbal Dhaliwal is a UPSC topper and a gold medal-winning IAS officer who left his job and moved to the US. He now heads MIT's Poverty Action Lab.

An exemplary economist who enhanced India's credibility in the global arena, Raghuram Rajan could end up winning the Nobel Prize in Economics, according to predictions made by research firm Clarivate Analytics.