Rogoff said he will return immediately to teaching at Harvard after the IMF’s annual meetings in Dubai, United Arab Emirates this September.

Rogoff was appointed to his position at the IMF in June of 2001, and he was granted a two-year leave of absence by the University to pursue the directorship of the IMF Research Department.

IMF Managing Director Horst Kohler lauded Rogoff’s tenure in a statement to the Executive Board of the International Monetary Fund.

“As Director of the Research Department, Ken Rogoff has made important progress in carrying forward a broad research program on topics related to international finance and macroeconomic policy in industrialized and developing economics,” Kohler said.

Prior to joining the Harvard faculty in September 1999, Rogoff was the Robertson professor of international affairs at Princeton University. Earlier in his career, Rogoff served on the staff at the IMF and the Federal Reserve Board and as a visiting scholar at the World Bank.