Kenneth Rogoff
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Kenneth Rogoff (b. 22 March 1953) served as Economic Counsellor and Director, Research Department of the International Monetary Fund from August 2001 to September 2003. He is currently Thomas D. Cabot Professor of Public Policy and Professor of Economics at Harvard University. Before his IMF and Harvard appointments, Rogoff was the Charles and Marie Robertson Professor of International Affairs at Princeton University. Early in his career, Rogoff served as an economist at the International Monetary Fund and also at the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System. He is an elected member of the American Academy of Arts and Science as well as the Econometric Society, and a former Guggenheim Fellow. Mr Rogoff received a B.A. from Yale University summa cum laude in 1975, and a Ph.D. in Economics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1980.
Rogoff has published extensively on policy issues in international finance, including exchange rates, international debt issues, and international monetary policy. Together with Maurice Obstfeld, he is co-author of the 1996 graduate text/treatise Foundations of International Macroeconomics.
Rogoff is married to Natasha Lance Rogoff, and has two children, Gabriel and Juliana. During his youth he was one of the strongest chessplayers in the United States, playing in several competitions for the U.S. Chess Championship but never winning the title. He was awarded the title of International Grandmaster of chess by the World Chess Federation (FIDE) in 1978 after qualifying for the 1976 Interzonal tournament. He played in the latter tournament, a qualifying event for choosing a challenger for the World Chess Championship, but without notable success.
Rogoff has also become in the spotlight, as of late, because of his dispute with Joseph Stiglitz, a former Chief Economist of the World Bank and 2001 Nobel Prize winner. The dispute was triggered by the critique made by Joseph Stiglitz on the International Monetary Fund. Rogoff, in response to the critique, wrote an Open Letter To Joseph Stiglitz
