Kenneth Rogoff
Harvard economist; IMF chief economist 2001–2003; chess grandmaster.
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- Kenneth Rogoff is an American economist and chess grandmaster who holds the Maurits C.
- Boas Chair of International Economics at Harvard.
- He was chief economist of the International Monetary Fund from 2001 to 2003.
- With Carmen Reinhart he wrote This Time Is Different (2009), a history of financial crises; their paper "Growth in a Time of Debt" drew criticism in 2013 after errors were found in it.
- His later books are The Curse of Cash (2016) and Our Dollar, Your Problem (2025).
Key facts
- Current role
- Maurits C. Boas Chair of International Economics, Harvard University1
- Born
- 22 March 1953, Rochester, New York1
- Education
- BA and MA, Yale (1975); PhD in economics, MIT (1980)1
- Career
- Economist at the IMF and the Federal Reserve Board; professor at Princeton; Harvard faculty from 1998; IMF chief economist from 2001 to 20031
- Books
- This Time Is Different (2009, with Carmen Reinhart); The Curse of Cash (2016); Our Dollar, Your Problem (2025)1
- Chess
- International Grandmaster1
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