Professor Carmen M Reinhart

Carmen M Reinhart is the Minos A. Zombanakis Professor of the International Financial System at Harvard Kennedy School. From 2020 to 2022 she served as Senior Vice-President and Chief Economist at The World Bank Group, following a stint as Chief Economist at the investment bank Bear Stearns in the 1980s.  

She was Policy Advisor and Deputy Director at the International Monetary Fund, and a member of the Advisory Panel of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York and the Congressional Budget Office Panel of Economic Advisors. Her work has helped to inform the understanding of financial crises in both advanced economies and emerging markets. 

Her best-selling book (with Kenneth S Rogoff), entitled This Time is Different: Eight Centuries of Financial Folly, documents the striking similarities of the recurring booms and busts that have characterised financial history. It has been translated into more than 20 languages and won the Paul A. Samuelson Award. 

Carmen is an elected member of the Group of Thirty and a senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations. She is ranked among the top economists worldwide according to Research Papers in Economics and has been listed among Bloomberg Markets's Most Influential 50 in Finance, Foreign Policy’s Top 100 Global Thinkers, and Thompson Reuters’ The World's Most Influential Scientific Minds. In 2018, she was awarded the King Juan Carlos Prize in Economics and NABE’s Adam Smith Award.