Kenneth Rogoff is Thomas D. Cabot Professor of Public Policy and Professor of Economics at Harvard University. From 2001-2003, Rogoff served as Chief Economist and Director of Research at the International Monetary Fund. He is also a former Director of the Center for International Development at Harvard.

Rogoff’s research covers global economic issues, including exchange rates, international capital flows and monetary policy. Rogoff’s treatise Foundations of International Macroeconomics (joint with Maurice Obstfeld) is the standard graduate text in the field worldwide, and his monthly syndicated column on global economic issues is published in 13 languages in over 50 countries.

His most recent research includes the widely-cited paper (joint with Carmen Reinhart) on “Is the 2007 U.S. Sub-Prime Financial Crisis So Different? An International Historical Comparison.”

He is on the Economic Advisory Panel of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York and the Central Bank of Sweden.

Rogoff is an elected member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, as well as a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, the Trilateral Commission and the Group of Thirty. Rogoff is also a fellow of the Econometric Society and the World Economic Forum, and has been invited to give numerous named campus-wide lectures at universities around the world. He holds the life title of international grandmaster of chess.