Kenneth Rogoff

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 is an expert on global economic issues, including international monetary policy, exchange rates, and international financial crises.   His 1985 paper on central bank independence and inflation targeting has been particularly influential.  Rogoff’s treatise Foundations of International Macroeconomics (joint with Maurice Obstfeld) is the standard text used in graduate courses throughout the world, and his monthly syndicated column on global economic issues is published in 13 languages in over 40 countries.

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

More detailed biographical information including full cv and editorial writings can be found at http://post.economics.harvard.edu/faculty/rogoff/rogoff.html