Kenneth Rogoff

Kenneth Rogoff is a professor at Harvard University and former chief economist of the IMF. His influential 2009 book, This Time Is Different: Eight Centuries of Financial Folly, co-authored with Carmen Reinhart, shows the remarkable quantitative similarities across time and countries in the origins and consequences of debt and financial crises. Rogoff is also known for his pioneering work on central bank independence and exchange rates. His monthly column on global economic issues is published in over 50 countries. Rogoff’s 2025 book, Our Dollar, Your Problem, offers a comprehensive look at the postwar rise of the dollar, the challenges the rest of the world faces in dealing with it, and how this experience can help shape the contours of the emerging new global financial system. Rogoff is an elected member of the National Academy of Sciences and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He has long been among the twelve most cited economists and is an international chess grandmaster.

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