Kenneth (Ken) Troske is the Richard H. and Janis W. Furst Endowed Chair in Economics in the Gatton College of Business and Economics at the University of Kentucky (UK) and a Research Fellow with the Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) in Bonn, Germany.

His primary research areas are labor and human resource economics. His papers have appeared in many leading journals in economics including the Journal of Political Economy, Quarterly Journal of Economics, Journal of Labor Economics, Journal of Human Resources, Review of Economics and Statistics, and the American Economic Review. Previously he worked at the University of Missouri-Columbia and the U.S. Census Bureau. He has also been a visiting scholar at the Melbourne Institute at the University of Melbourne and Australian National University.

While at UK Dr. Troske has served as the Chair of the Economics Department, the Senior Associate Dean overseeing faculty, administrtion and research, and the Associate Dean for Graduate Programs and Outreach. He teachs courses in labor economics to both undergraduate and graduate students and managerial economics in the MBA program. Troske previously served as a Co-editor of the Southern Economic Journal and on the Federal Advisory Commintee on Data for Evidence Building. He has also served on the Commission for Evidence Based Policy Making, the Federal Congressional Oversight Panel and the Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland's Lexington Advisory Committee. Dr. Troske received his B.A. from the University of Washington and his M.A. and Ph.D. from the University of Chicago.