Dr. Carmen M. Reinhart is the Minos A. Zombanakis Professor of the International Financial System at Harvard Kennedy School.

Previously she was the Dennis Weatherstone Senior Fellow at the Peterson Institute for International Economics and Director of the Center for International Economics at the University of Maryland.

Prior to her academic appointments, Reinhart was chief economist and vice president at the investment bank Bear Stearns in the 1980s and spent several years at the International Monetary Fund.

She is a research associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research, research fellow at the Centre for Economic Policy Research, and member of the Congressional Budget Office Panel of Economic Advisers and Council on Foreign Relations. Carmen has served on many editorial boards and has frequently testified before Congress.

She has written and published on a variety of topics in macroeconomics and international finance including international capital flows, capital controls, inflation and commodity prices, banking and sovereign debt crises, currency crashes, and contagion.

Her work has been published in scholarly journals such as The American Economic Review, the Journal of Political Economy, the Quarterly Journal of Economics, and the Journal of Economic Perspectives. As well, her work is featured in the financial press, including The Economist, Newsweek, The Washington Post, and The Wall Street Journal.

Her book, co-authored by Kenneth Rogoff, This Time is Different: Eight Centuries of Financial Folly studied the striking similarities of the recurring booms and busts that have characterized financial history and won the 2010 Paul A. Samuelson TIAA-CREF Institute Award.

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