Kenneth Rogoff is Thomas D. Cabot Professor at Harvard University.
From 2001–2003, he served as Chief Economist at the International Monetary Fund.
His widely-cited 2009 book with Carmen Reinhart, “This Time Is Different: Eight Centuries of Financial Folly”, shows the remarkable quantitative similarities across time and countries in the run-up and the aftermath of severe financial crises.
Kenneth Rogoff is also known for his seminal work on exchange rates and on central bank independence. Together with Maurice Obstfeld, he is co-author of “Foundations of International Macroeconomics”, a treatise that has also become a widely-used graduate text in the field worldwide. His 2016 book “The Curse of Cash” looks at the past, present and future of currency from standardized coinage to crypto-currencies and central bank digital currencies. His monthly syndicated column on global economic issues is published in over 50 countries.
Kenneth Rogoff is an elected member of the National Academy of Sciences, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and the Group of Thirty, and he is a senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations. He is among the top ten on RePEc’s ranking of economists by scholarly citations. He is also an international grandmaster of chess.