The Wheeler Institute for Business and Development is honoured to welcome Kenneth Rogoff, Maurits C. Boas Professor of International Economics at Harvard University to London Business School for a lecture and conversation centred on his highly anticipated new book Our Dollar, Your Problem: An Insider’s View of Seven Turbulent Decades of Global Finance and the Road Ahead. Few scholars have shaped our understanding of the international monetary system as profoundly as Rogoff, whose work continues to define debates on financial crises, sovereign debt, and the architecture of global markets. The event will offer a rare opportunity to hear directly from a global thinker whose insights have informed academics, policymakers, and investors for more than four decades.
In this discussion, Rogoff will delve into the forces that have driven the U.S. dollar to its global dominance, the political and economic choices that have reinforced its position, and the emerging pressures that may challenge it in the years ahead. As shifting geopolitics, technological change and persistent instability redefine the global financial landscape, Rogoff brings unmatched historical perspective and analytical clarity to the question of whether the world is approaching a turning point, and what that would mean for developed and emerging economies.
The conversation will be moderated by Hélène Rey, Lord Bagri Professor of Economics at London Business School. With her deep expertise in global capital flows and financial cycles, Rey will engage Rogoff in a forward-looking examination of the dollar’s future, its implications for global development and stability, and the policy decisions that may shape the next era of international finance.
This event offers a rare opportunity to explore the forces shaping the international monetary system, the challenges facing the U.S. dollar, and the implications for global financial stability and emerging economies. We look forward to welcoming you to London Business School.
Date and time: Wednesday 28th January 2026, 18:30 GMT
Location: LT18 & 19, Sammy Ofer Centre, London Business School and online via Zoom
Speakers
Kenneth Rogoff is the Maurits C. Boas Professor of International Economics at Harvard University and one of the world’s most influential macroeconomists. A former Chief Economist of the International Monetary Fund, he has played a central role in advancing understanding of financial crises, sovereign debt, exchange rates and global capital markets. His bestselling book This Time Is Different: Eight Centuries of Financial Folly (with Carmen Reinhart) remains a landmark in the study of economic history, and his graduate text Foundations of International Macroeconomics is a defining reference for researchers and policymakers. Rogoff is an elected member of the National Academy of Sciences and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He has long ranked among the top dozen most cited economists and is an international grandmaster of chess.
Hélène Rey is the Lord Bagri Professor of Economics at London Business School. Until 2007, she was at Princeton University, as Professor of Economics and International Affairs. Her research focuses on the determinants and consequences of external trade and financial imbalances, the theory and empirics of financial crises and the organization of the international monetary system. She was elected President of the European Economic Association in 2022. Rey is an elected Fellow of the British Academy, of the Econometric Society, of the European Economic Association, of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, a Foreign Honorary Member of the American Economic Association, a correspondent of the Académie des Sciences Morales et Politiques. She was made O.B.E for services to Economics.