Carmen M. Reinhart is the Dennis Weatherstone Senior Fellow at the Peterson Institute for International Economics. She was previously professor of economics and director of the Center for International Economics at the University of Maryland. She 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. She has served on many editorial boards and has frequently testified before Congress. Reinhart's work has helped to inform the understanding of financial crises for over a decade. Her numerous papers on macroeconomics international finance, and trade have been published in leading scholarly journals She is the recipient of the 2010TIAA-CREF Paul A.

Samuelson Award. Her best-selling book (with Kenneth S. Rogoff entitled This Time is Different: Eight Centuries of Financial Folly, which has been translated into 13 languages, documents the striking similarities of the recurring booms and busts that have characterized financial history. She received her PhD from Columbia University. Kenneth S. Rogoff is a member of the Peterson Institute for International Economics Advisory Committee and the Thomas D. Cabot Professor of Public Policy and Professor of Economics at Harvard University. He also served as chef economist and director of research at the International Monetary Fund (2001-03).

He is the recipient of the 2010HAA-CREF Paul A. Samuelson Award His Publications include This Time is Different: Eight Centuries of Financial Folly, Handbook of International Economics Volume III, and Foundations of International Macroeconomics. Rogoff is a frequent commentator for NPR, the Wall Street Journal, and the Financial Times.