Kenneth S. Rogoff

Kenneth Rogoff is Boas Professor of Economics at Harvard University, and former chief economist at the IMF. His influential and best-selling 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. His monthly syndicated column on global economic issues is published in over 50 countries. His newest book, Our Dollar, Your Problem: An Insider’s View of Seven Turbulent Decades of Global Finance and the Road Ahead, explores the post-war rise of the dollar, the challenges ahead from crypto and the Chinese yuan, and argues that the period of reliably low interest rates, inflation and exchange rate volatility has likely come to an end, and that the dollar's dominance will be reduced. Rogoff has long ranked among the top ten most cited economists, and is an international grandmaster of chess.