Kenneth Rogoff is Maurits C. Boas Professor at Harvard University, and former
chief economist at the IMF. His influential 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 roots
and aftermath of debt and financial crises. Rogoff is also known for his
pioneering work on central bank independence, and on exchange rates. He is
co-author of the widely-used graduate text,
Foundations of International
Macroeconomics. His 2016 book
The Curse of Cash looks at the past,
present and future of currency from standardized coinage to crypto-currencies.
His monthly syndicated column on global economic issues is published in over
50 countries. Rogoff’s 2025 book
Our Dollar, Your Problem: An Insider’s
View of Seven Turbulent Decades of Global Finance and the Road Ahead offers
a sweeping view of the post-war rise of the dollar, the challenges the rest of
the world has in dealing with it, and how this experience can help inform the
contours of the evolving 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 ranked among the top dozen
most cited economists, and is an international grandmaster of chess.