As #IMO2025 wraps up in #Australia 🇦🇺! GTF congratulates all participants. Your talent is inspiring. 👏 Special kudos to GTF-supported teams from #Mongolia 🇲🇳, #Mexico 🇲🇽, #Costa Rica 🇨🇷, #Bulgaria 🇧🇬, #Kyrgyzstan 🇰🇬, & #Rwanda 🇷🇼 📍 Next #IMO2026 in #China 🇨🇳!

GTF is in #Bolivia 📷 at #IOI2025, a top programming contest for secondary students. Talented national teams address algorithmic challenges, testing their skills. Many AI companies are testing models here after #IMO2025. Good luck to all!

ICYMI: We joined the action in Bolivia 🇧🇴 at the 37th International Olympiad in Informatics #IOI2025. It was inspiring to see top young programmers take on challenges and connect with the Olympiad community. 📸 Highlights from #IOIBolivia below ⬇️

Universities in Europe in 1650

世界は、若き天才を適切に特定し、育て、力を与えるために、才能についての理解を深める必要がある。ルシャー・アガワルとパトリック・グールがF&D誌で語る。 imf.org/ja/Publication…

1/6 🧵 Schools always work hard to support students who struggle. But what about talented students who find class too slow? Without challenge, talented students risk disengagement. 🥱

”There is genuine risk here, and the RBI is right to be vigilant… But I wish supervisors would bring macroeconomics and economic growth more directly into their decisions. Financing is central to India’s growth story, and we underappreciate that.” - Agarwal I spoke with

Excited to share this video from University of Bristol. I spoke about our work at Global Talent Fund to support young talent worldwide and advance the knowledge frontier. Thank you to BIG Scholar Dulguun, for sharing her story. youtu.be/AuTa7pElopQ?si… via YouTube

Wonderful video from University of Bristol featuring my Global Talent Fund co-founder Patrick Gaule. Through his story—and that of BIG Scholar & Bristol student Dulguun Gansukh—it beautifully captures the journey of GTF.

We don’t have to accept trillion-dollar delays in pandemic response. My new Center for Global Development paper builds on our earlier Day-Zero Financing proposal—a practical plan for rapid, equitable action instead of the fragmented, slow country-by-country model that cost the world trillions of $

Register now for our upcoming event: India's Role in the Changing World Order India's Ambassador to the United States, Vinay Kwatra, joins us on September 20th for a fireside chat with the Raj Center's Director, Ruchir Agarwal 🌍 Seating is limited. Click here to register-

Honored to have hosted India's Ambassador to the U.S., Amb Vinay Mohan Kwatra this afternoon for a fireside chat with Ruchir Agarwal 🌍 titled,"India's Role in the Changing World Order"

In an age of artificial intelligence, the human kind is increasingly important economist.com/finance-and-ec…

Pandemics magnify fragmentation in global health systems. Ruchir Agarwal 🌍 argues that Day-Zero Financing—a pre-approved liquidity line backed by MDBs & donors—replaces fragmentation with a unified, rapid, and fair response: bit.ly/46tv43D

This is impressive work being done by Ruchir Agarwal 🌍 and his Global Talent Fund organization. Kudos to Ruchir for forcing the change he wants to see in the world! IMF

I wrote a long blot post on the economics of AI, prompted by two great workshops (Windfall and NBER), and me leaving OpenAI for METR: TLDR: we driving in the fog. 1. There is no standard model of AI’s economic impact. Economists have been using a wide range of assumptions to

Finding geniuses is not just about discovery—it is also about development. Without access to stronger ecosystems, raw talent will struggle to flourish economist.com/finance-and-ec…

Pandemics expose the weakest link: w/o rapid resources, delays prolong crises. Ruchir Agarwal 🌍 suggests a practical solution: Day-Zero Financing—a pre-approved liquidity line backed by MDBs & donors—that secures early, equitable access to vaccines & care: bit.ly/46tv43D