Gourinchas Becomes Chief Economist of the International Monetary Fund.

Pierre-Olivier Gourinchas, professor of economics and the S.K. and Angela Chan Professor of Global Management at the University of California, Berkeley's Haas School of Business, and former director of the NBER International Finance and Macroeconomics (IFM) Program, has been named Economic Counsellor and Director of the Research Department at the International Monetary Fund (IMF). He assumed the position full time on April 1. Other NBER affiliates...