12 Facts About Kenneth Rogoff

Kenneth Saul Rogoff was born on March 22,1953 and is an American economist and chess Grandmaster.

Kenneth Rogoff is the Thomas D Cabot Professor of Public Policy and professor of economics at Harvard University.

Kenneth Rogoff's father was a professor of radiology at the University of Rochester.

At sixteen Kenneth Rogoff dropped out of high school to concentrate on chess.

At that time he met Bobby Fischer, who was impressed by Kenneth Rogoff's "self-assured style and his knowing exactly what he wanted over the chessboard".

Kenneth Rogoff won the United States Junior Championship in 1969 and spent the next several years living primarily in Europe and playing in tournaments there.

Kenneth Rogoff was awarded the IM title in 1974, and the GM title in 1978.

Kenneth Rogoff has drawn individual games against former world champions Mikhail Tal and Tigran V Petrosian.

Early in his career, Kenneth Rogoff served as an economist at the International Monetary Fund, and at the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System.

Kenneth Rogoff was the Charles and Marie Robertson Professor of International Affairs at Princeton University.

In 2002, Kenneth Rogoff was in the spotlight because of a dispute with Joseph Stiglitz, former chief economist of the World Bank and 2001 Nobel Prize winner.

Kenneth Rogoff is a regular contributor to Project Syndicate since 2002.