Gita Gopinath, the No. 2 official at the International Monetary Fund, will leave her post at the end of August to return to Harvard University, the IMF said in a statement on Monday. IMF Managing Director Kristalina Georgieva will name a successor to Gopinath in "due course,

Gita Gopinath is a respected Indian-American economist serving as the First Deputy Managing Director at the IMF. She has announced her departure and will be leaving the IMF at the end of August.

Gita Gopinath, first deputy managing director at the IMF, will return to Harvard University as a professor of economics. Having served seven years at the IMF, including as the first female chief economist,