Carmen Reinhart

This Time Is Different; sovereign debt history

Former Chief Economist at the World Bank and Minos A. Zombanakis Professor at Harvard Kennedy School. Co-authored 'This Time Is Different: Eight Centuries of Financial Folly' (2009) with Kenneth Rogoff, cataloguing recurring patterns across sovereign defaults, banking crises, and inflation episodes. Her dataset-driven approach reshaped how policymakers and researchers diagnose financial fragility.