Kenneth Rogoff

Kenneth Rogoff is Professor of Economics and Maurits C. Boas Chair of International Economics at Harvard University, where he has taught since 1999. His research covers international macroeconomics, exchange rates, central bank independence, sovereign debt and financial crises. With Maurice Obstfeld he co-authored Foundations of International Macroeconomics, the standard graduate text in the field, and with Carmen Reinhart he wrote This Time Is Different, a study of eight centuries of financial crises. He also wrote The Curse of Cash, which examines the case for limiting large-denomination currency. From 2001 to 2003 he was Chief Economist and Director of Research at the International Monetary Fund. He received the Deutsche Bank Prize in Financial Economics in 2011 and is an international chess grandmaster.