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Kenneth Rogoff
American economist and chess grandmaster (born 1953) / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Kenneth Saul Rogoff (born March 22, 1953) is an American economist and chess Grandmaster.
Quick Facts Ken Rogoff, Chief Economist of the International Monetary Fund ...
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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 | (1953-03-22) March 22, 1953 (age 71) Rochester, New York, U.S. |
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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[2] |
Doctoral students | Gita Gopinath[3] |
Information at IDEAS / RePEc | |
Chess career | |
Country | United States |
Title | Grandmaster (1978) |
Peak rating | 2520 (January 1977) |
Peak ranking | No. 61 (January 1980) |
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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.[4][5]