Roberto Rigobon is the Society of Sloan Fellows Professor of Applied Economics in the field of Business & Economics at the MIT Sloan School of Management. He earned a PhD in Economics from MIT in 1997, an MBA from Instituto de Estudios Superiores de Administracion (IESA) in Venezuela in 1991, and a BS in Electrical Engineering from Universidad Simon Bolivar in Venezuela in 1984. Joining MIT Sloan in 1997 as Assistant Professor of Applied Economics, he progressed to Associate Professor in 2003, Professor in 2007, and his current endowed professorship in 2009. Rigobon also serves as a research associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research since 2003 and as Visiting Professor of Economics at IESA since 1997. He is faculty director of the MIT Sloan Sustainability Initiative and holds memberships on the Census Bureau’s Scientific Advisory Committee since 2012 and the Committee on National Statistics of the National Academy of Sciences since 2015.

A macroeconomist, Rigobon concentrates on measurement issues across economic, social, and ethical dimensions, including financial contagion, propagation of shocks through economic networks, alternative inflation measures via the Billion Prices Project which he co-founded, and improvements to ESG ratings through the Aggregate Confusion Project which he co-founded and directs. His recent research examines human capabilities complementing AI. Highly cited works include "No Contagion, Only Interdependence: Measuring Stock Market Comovements" (Journal of Finance, 2002; 6782 citations), "Aggregate Confusion: The Divergence of ESG Ratings" (Review of Finance, 2022; 4902 citations), "The Impact of Monetary Policy on Asset Prices" (Journal of Monetary Economics, 2004), "The Billion Prices Project: Using Online Prices for Inflation Measurement and Research" (Journal of Economic Perspectives, 2016), and "Currency Choice and Exchange Rate Pass-Through" (American Economic Review, 2010). Rigobon has earned five Teacher of the Year awards and three Excellence in Teaching awards at MIT Sloan, the 2023 Pagano and Zechner Prize for the best non-investment paper in Review of Finance, the 2025 Best Paper Award from the Miami University Finance and Real Estate Conference, 2025 Financial Times Responsible Business Award recognition for the Aggregate Confusion Project, and the 2022 Allocators’ Choice Award. He has served as president of LACEA (2012-2013), associate editor for Review of Economics and Statistics (2003-2012), and editor of Economia.

Professional Email: rigobon@mit.edu