Kenneth Rogoff is senior fellow for economics at the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR), 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. His monthly syndicated column on global economic issues is published in over fifty countries. His 2025 Our Dollar, Your Problem: An Insider’s View of Seven Turbulent Decades of Global Finance explores the post-war rise of the dollar and the challenges ahead from crypto and the Chinese yuan, and it argues that the period of reliably low interest rates, inflation, and exchange rate volatility has likely come to an end.
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 ten most cited economists and is an international grandmaster of chess.
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