Kenneth Rogoff is the Thomas D. Cabot professor of public policy and professor of economics at Harvard University in the United States. He received his PhD in economics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He worked as an economist at the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve from 1979 to 1985 and later as economic counsellor and director of the research department (commonly referred to as the chief economist) of the International Monetary Fund from August 2001 to September 2003