Kenneth Rogoff is Thomas D. Cabot Professor at Harvard University and formerly IMF Chief Economist. His 1985 paper in the Quarterly Journal of Economics established the theoretical case for having an independent central bank with a significant weight on inflation stabilization. His book (with Carmen Reinhart) This Time Is Different: Eight Centuries of Financial Folly, provides a quantitative history of debt, financial and inflation crises. The Curse of Cash (2016) looks at the past, present and future of currency and monetary policy.

Rogoff is a member of the National Academy of Sciences and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He is also an international grandmaster in chess.

Jing Cynthia Wu is the Dillon Hall Associate Professor of Economics at the University of Notre Dame and a faculty research fellow at the National Bureau of Economic Research. Her research interest is macrofinance. Wu has published in the American Economic Review, Journal of International Economics, Journal of Econometrics, and International Economic Review. She has served as a panelist at the National Science Foundation and an associate editor at the Review of Economics and Statistics. She proposed a “shadow federal funds rate” to study the economic effects of quantitative easing, which has been popular in mainstream media and central banks.

Eric Sims is a macroeconomist whose research focuses on business cycles and monetary and fiscal policies. He received his PhD from the University of Michigan in 2009. He is an associate professor at the University of Notre Dame and a research associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research. His research has been published in the American Economic Review, the Review of Economics and Statistics, the Journal of Monetary Economics, the American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics, and several other scholarly journals.

Annette Vissing-Jorgensen is a professor at the Haas School of Business at University of California, Berkeley. She also serves as scientific adviser to the Sveriges Riksbank. Before joining Haas, Vissing-Jørgensen was on the faculty at Northwestern University and the University of Chicago. She has also served as a director of the American Finance Association and the European Finance Association. Vissing-Jørgensen’s research focuses on monetary policy and empirical asset pricing. Her work has been published in leading economics and finance journals (Journal of Political Economy, American Economic Review, Quarterly Journal of Economics, Journal of Finance, Journal of Financial Economics, and Review of Financial Studies). Vissing-Jørgensen holds a PhD from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.