Global GSAS: An Evening with Professor Kenneth Rogoff in London

Global GSAS: An Evening with Professor Kenneth Rogoff in London

January 15, 2015

The Graduate School Alumni Association invites you to join us for a GSAS Global event

"Rethinking the Global Currency System" 

delivered by Professor Kenneth Rogoff, Professor of Economics and the Thomas D. Cabot Professor of Public Policy.

 

Thursday, January 15, 2015

7:00 p.m. – 9:00 p.m. (presentation followed by reception)

Nash Room

Institute of Directors 

116 Pall Mall

London, England

Register Now – Space is limited.

 

Kenneth Rogoff is Professor of Economics and the Thomas D. Cabot Professor of Public Policy at Harvard University. From 2001-2003, Rogoff served as Chief Economist and Director of Research at the International Monetary Fund. Rogoff’s treatise Foundations of International Macroeconomics (joint with Maurice Obstfeld) is the standard graduate text in the field worldwide, and his monthly syndicated column on global economic issues is published regularly in over 50 countries. His recent academic book with Carmen Reinhart, This Time Is Different: Eight Centuries of Financial Folly (Princeton University Press), builds on a massive new data set covering 66 countries and 800 years. The book (a New York Times, Amazon, and interational bestseller) shows the remarkable quantitative similarities across time and countries in both the run-up to, and the aftermath of, severe financial crises. Rogoff is also known for his early research on central bank independence and inflation targeting as an institutional device for enhancing the credibility of monetary policy.

Rogoff is an elected member of the National Academy of Sciences and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, as well as the Council on Foreign Relations, and the Group of Thirty. He has been invited to give numerous named campus-wide research lectures at universities around the world, and also speaks widely on economic issues. He is the 2011 winner of the biennial Deutsche Bank Prize awarded by the Center for Financial Economics. Rogoff is on the Economic Advisory Panel of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York. He holds the life title of international grandmaster of chess.

Professor Rogoff will be joined by Xiao-Li Meng, Dean of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences and Whipple V. N. Jones Professor of Statistics and former Chair at Harvard University, who is well known for his depth and breadth in research, his innovation and passion in pedagogy, and his vision and effectiveness in administration, as well as for his engaging and entertaining style as a speaker and writer. Meng has received numerous awards and honors for the more than 120 publications he has authored in at least a dozen theoretical and methodological areas, as well as in areas of pedagogy and professional development; he has delivered more than 400 research presentations and public speeches on these topics, and he is the author of “The XL-Files," a regularly appearing column in the IMS (Institute of Mathematical Statistics) Bulletin.

Don't miss this special gathering!

Presentation begins promptly at 7 p.m., reception with included refreshments to follow.

£10 ($16) members of the Harvard Club of the United Kingdom and GSAS alumni/ae

£20 ($31) non-members and other alumni