Ken Rogoff
| Kenneth Rogoff | |
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| Born |
March 22, 1953 Rochester, New York |
| Nationality | American |
| Spouse(s) |
Evelyn Jane Brody m. 1979 (d. 1989) Natasha Lance Rogoff m.1995 |
| Website | http://www.economics.harvard.edu/faculty/rogoff |
| Institution | Harvard University |
| Field | Financial economics |
| Alma mater |
Yale University (BA) MIT (PhD) |
| Doctoral advisor |
Rudiger Dornbusch |
| Doctoral students |
Gita Gopinath |
| Influences | James Tobin Stanley Fischer Jerry Hausman Jagdish Bhagwati |
| Information at IDEAS / RePEc | |
Evelyn Jane Brody m. 1979 (d. 1989)
Kenneth Saul "Ken" Rogoff (born March 22, 1953) is an American economist and chess Grandmaster. He is the Thomas D. Cabot Professor of Public Policy and Professor of Economics at Harvard University.
Rogoff grew up in Rochester, New York. His father was a Professor of Radiology at the University of Rochester.
Rogoff received a BA and MA from Yale University summa cum laude in 1975, and a PhD in Economics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1980.
At sixteen Rogoff dropped out of high school to concentrate on chess. He won the United States Junior Championship in 1969 and spent the next several years living primarily in Europe and playing in tournaments there. However, at eighteen he made the decision to go to college and pursue a career in economics rather than to become a professional player, although he continued to play and improve for several years afterward. Rogoff was awarded the IM title in 1974, and the GM title in 1978. He was 3rd in the World Junior Championship of 1971 and finished 2nd in the US Championship of 1975, which doubled as a Zonal competition, a half point behind Walter Browne; this result qualified him for the 1976 Interzonal at Biel where he finished 13–15th. In other tournaments, he drew for first at Norristown in 1973 and at Orense in 1976. He has also drawn individual games against former world champions Mikhail Tal and Tigran Petrosian. In 2012 he drew a blitz game with the world's highest rated player Magnus Carlsen.
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