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Roberto Rigobon

MIT Sloan School of Management

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Society of Sloan Fellows Professor of Management

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Roberto Rigobon

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Roberto Rigobon is the Society of Sloan Fellows Professor of Applied Economics at the MIT Sloan School of Management, a research associate with the National Bureau of Economic Research, and a Visiting Professor at IESA (Venezuela).

Roberto is a macroeconomist who concentrates on measurement issues: economic, social, and ethical. He studies financial contagion and the propagation of shocks through economic networks. He is one of the two founding members of the Billion Prices Project, which produces alternative measures of inflation in many countries. He is also a cofounder and director of the Aggregate Confusion Project, which studies how to improve ESG measures. Recently, he’s been studying how human capabilities can complement AI.

Roberto joined MIT Sloan in 1997. Since then, he has been named the Teacher of the Year five times and has received three Excellence in Teaching awards from the School. He received his PhD in Economics from MIT in 1997, an MBA from IESA (Venezuela) in 1991, and a BS in Electrical Engineering from Universidad Simon Bolivar (Venezuela) in 1984. He is happily married and a proud father of three.


 

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Nov 2–4, 2026

LOCATION

Cambridge, MA

DURATION

3 days

COMMITMENT

8 hours/day

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$5,500

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Nov 2–4, 2026

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3 days

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Sep 30–Nov 17, 2026

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Jun 16–Aug 3, 2027

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$3,250

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Sep 29–Nov 16, 2027

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Sep 21–Oct 2, 2026

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6–8 hours/week

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$3,850

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