Carmen M. Reinhart
Economist and Harvard professor
Carmen M. Reinhart is a Cuban-American economist who holds a professorship at Harvard Kennedy School. She co-wrote This Time Is Different with Kenneth Rogoff.
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American Born 1955 in Havana, Cuba
About Carmen M. Reinhart
Carmen M. Reinhart was born in Havana, Cuba, on 7 October 1955. She earned her Ph.D. at Columbia University and holds the Minos A. Zombanakis professorship of the International Financial System at Harvard Kennedy School. Before that, she was an economics professor at the University of Maryland, where she also led the Center for International Economics. She spent the 1980s at the investment bank Bear Stearns, serving as its chief economist and a vice president. She later spent several years at the International Monetary Fund. In 2020 she was appointed Chief Economist of the World Bank. In December 2018 she received the King Juan Carlos Prize in Economics. Her research has covered financial crises, capital flows, sovereign debt, exchange rates and inflation. This Time Is Different: Eight Centuries of Financial Folly, written with Kenneth Rogoff, documents the similarities among the booms and busts that recur through financial history.