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My Take
What draws me to Kenneth Rogoff is the rare double life: a chess Grandmaster who became Harvard's professor of international economics. I find that combination telling, because both fields reward pattern recognition and the patience to think several moves ahead. He earned the Grandmaster title back in 1978, then built a career as one of the most-cited economists alive, capped by the 2021 Clarivate Citation honors. His vocal support for austerity during the Great Recession made him a polarizing figure, and I respect that he stayed in the argument rather than ducking it. To me he embodies the strategist who never really left the board.
Overview
Kenneth Saul Rogoff (born March 22, 1953) is an American economist and chess Grandmaster. He is the Maurits C. Boas Chair of International Economics at Harvard University. During the Great Recession, Rogoff was an influential proponent of austerity.
Summary adapted from Wikipedia, licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0.
1. Profile
- Name (English)
- Kenneth Rogoff
- Name (Japanese)
- ケネス・ロゴフ
- Reading
- けねす・ろごふ
- Born
- March 22, 1953 (age 73)
- Zodiac / Chinese zodiac
- Aries / Snake
- Origin
- Rochester, New York, United States
- Blood type
- Private
- Height
- Private
- Agency
- Private
- Occupation
- economist / chess player / university teacher
2. Background
- Elementary school
- Private
- Junior high
- Private
- High school
- East High School
- University
- Yale University
Awards & achievements
- Guggenheim Fellowship
- 2011 Adam Smith Award
- 2011 Deutsche Bank Prize in Financial Economics
- 1991 Fellow of the Econometric Society
- Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
- 1978 Grandmaster
- 2021 Clarivate Citation Laureates
3. Relationships
- Spouse
- Private
- Children
- Private
- Parents
- Private
- Siblings
- Private
4. Personality
Motto
Private
6. Links
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7. About this entry
Tags
- Last updated
- 2026-06-02
Facts are limited to publicly available information up to 2024; non-public items are marked "Private / Unknown". English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.