Kenneth Rogoff

Kenneth Rogoff is Thomas D. Cabot Professor at Harvard University and former Chief Economist at the IMF. His 2009 book with Carmen Reinhart, This Time is Different: Eight Centuries of Financial Folly documents the remarkable quantitative similarities across time and countries in the run-up and the aftermath of severe financial crises. Rogoff is also known for his seminal work on exchange rates and on central bank independence. His treatise Foundations of International Macroeconomics (joint with Maurice Obstfeld) is the standard graduate text in the field worldwide. His 2016 book The Curse of Cash explores the past, present, and future of currency, including the regulation of private digital currencies and the possibility of state-sponsored digital currencies. His monthly syndicated column on global economic issues is published in over 50 countries.

Rogoff is an elected member of the National Academy of Sciences, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and the Group of Thirty. He is also an international grandmaster of chess.