New Delhi, July 22 -- International Monetary Fund Deputy Managing Director Gita Gopinath has announced that she will return to academics and rejoin Harvard University as a professor in the Economics Department.

The Harvard Gazette revealed that Gopinath will be joining the Harvard faculty this fall, following her return from a long-term public service leave of absence.

"I now return to my roots in academia," said Gopinath in a post on X. "I look forward to continuing to push the research frontier in international finance and macroeconomics to address global challenges, and to training the next generation of economists," she wrote.

Gopinath first arrived on Harvard Campus as a visiting professor in 2005. Beginning September 1, she will ...