By Andrea Shalal

WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The Trump administration is considering recommending White House economic adviser Pierre Yared for the No. 2 job at the International Monetary Fund, sources familiar with the discussions told Reuters on Monday.

IMF First Deputy Managing Director Gita Gopinath announced in July that she would leave her post at the end of August to return to Harvard University.

IMF Managing Director Kristalina Georgieva has been reviewing the names and qualifications of potential successors for Gopinath and expects to announce a decision before next month’s meetings of the IMF and World Bank in Washington, according to sources familiar with her thinking.

The sources declined to be identified because they were not authorized to discuss the matter publicly.

Yared, wh

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