International Monetary Fund

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.

International Monetary Fund head Christine Lagarde thinks that increased participation of women will work wonders for the global economy.