A Cuban-American economist and the Minos A. Zombanakis Professor of the International Financial System at Harvard Kennedy School, Carmen Reinhart is one of the most influential macroeconomists in the world. Former Chief Economist and Senior Vice President of the World Bank, she has also served as Senior Policy Advisor at the IMF and Chief Economist at Bear Stearns. Her landmark book This Time Is Different: Eight Centuries of Financial Folly, co-authored with Kenneth Rogoff, remains the definitive study of recurring financial crises across history. Ranked among the top economists worldwide by scholarly citation, she has been named to Bloomberg’s Most Influential 50 in Finance and Foreign Policy’s Top 100 Global Thinkers. Her work on sovereign debt, banking crises, and capital flows has shaped policy at the highest levels of global finance.
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