Narayana Rao Kocherlakota (born October 12, 1963) is an American economist and the Lionel W. McKenzie Professor of Economics at the University of Rochester.

[1] Kocherlakota was born in Baltimore, Maryland, to a European American mother and a Telugu Hindu father originally from the Coastal Andhra region of southern India.

in Mathematics in 1983 after completing a senior thesis titled "Optimal income taxation" under the supervision of Robert M.

He published a graduate textbook on the subject in 2010 called The New Dynamic Public Finance by Princeton University Press.

Paid for by the Cato Institute, a libertarian think tank, the petition was published in several major national newspapers.

"[6] On October 8, 2009, Kocherlakota assumed the presidency of the Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis following the retirement of Gary H. Stern.