Roberto Rigobon

Roberto Rigobon is the Society of Sloan Fellows Professor of Management and Professor of Applied Economics at the MIT Sloan School of Management. He is also a research associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER), a member of the Census Bureau’s Scientific Advisory Committee, and a visiting professor at IESA in Venezuela. His research focuses on international economics, monetary economics, and development economics, with a particular emphasis on financial crises, inflation measurement through the Billion Prices Project, and contagion effects in global markets.

Education: PhD in Economics from MIT (1997), MBA from IESA (1991), BS in Electrical Engineering from Universidad Simón Bolívar (1984).

Research Interests:

• International Pricing and Inflation Measurement
• Financial Contagion and Systemic Risk
• ESG Ratings and Sustainable Finance
• Currency Unions and Exchange Rate Pass-Through

Awards: Multiple teaching awards at MIT, including Teacher of the Year (1999, 2002, 2004, 2019) and Excellence in Teaching (2000, 2003, 2005). Recognized as a NBER Research Associate since 2003 and listed among IESA’s 50 Most Influential Alumni (2015).

Grants & Committees: NSF-funded research on sticky borders, member of the Committee on National Statistics (National Academy of Sciences), and advisor to the Census Bureau. His work spans academia, policy, and industry, with contributions to the Aggregate Confusion Project and ESG Machine initiatives.

Labs/Teams: Co-founder of PriceStats (part of the Billion Prices Project) and collaborator on interdisciplinary research teams addressing ESG metrics and systemic risk.