Kenneth Rogoff
Kenneth Rogoff | |
|---|---|
Rogoff at ASSA 2026 | |
| Chief Economist of the International Monetary Fund | |
| In office August 2001 – September 2003 | |
| President | Horst Köhler |
| Preceded by | Michael Mussa |
| Succeeded by | Raghuram Rajan |
| Personal details | |
| Born | March 22, 1953 Rochester, New York, U.S. |
| Spouses | Evelyn Brody (m. 1979–1989)Natasha Lance (m. 1995) |
| Education | Yale University (BA, MA) Massachusetts Institute of Technology (PhD) |
| Website | rogoff |
| Academic background | |
| Thesis | Essays on expectations and exchange-rate volatility (1980) |
| Doctoral advisor | Rudi Dornbusch |
| Academic work | |
| Discipline | Financial economics |
| Institutions | Harvard University |
| Doctoral students | |
| Website | |
| Chess career | |
| Country | United States |
| Title | Grandmaster (1978) |
| Peak rating | 2520 (January 1977) |
| Peak ranking | No. 61 (January 1980) |
Kenneth Saul Rogoff (born March 22, 1953) is an American economist and chess Grandmaster.
He is the Maurits C. Boas Chair of International Economics at Harvard University. During the Great Recession, Rogoff was an influential proponent of austerity.