Kenneth Rogoff
Kenneth Saul Rogoff (born March 22, 1953) is an American economist and chess Grandmaster.
Ken Rogoff | |
|---|---|
| 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 | University website |
| Academic career | |
| Institution | Harvard University |
| Field | Financial economics |
| Doctoral advisor | Rudi Dornbusch |
| Doctoral students | Gita Gopinath |
| Information at IDEAS / RePEc | |
| Chess career | |
| Country | United States |
| Title | Grandmaster (1978) |
| Peak rating | 2520 (January 1977) |
He is the Thomas D. Cabot Professor of Public Policy and professor of economics at Harvard University. During the Great Recession, Rogoff was an influential proponent of austerity.
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