Canadian Group of Economists
Member Biographies
Biographies
Michelle Alexopoulos (University of Toronto)
Steve Ambler (Université du Québec à Montréal)
Paul Beaudry (UBC and former Bank of Canada Deputy Governor)
Michael Bordo (Rutgers University and Hoover Institution)
Michelle Alexopoulos is a Professor of Economics at the University of Toronto with a cross appointment to ....
Steve Ambler taught at l’École des sciences de la gestion de l’Université du Québec à Montréal (ESG UQAM)
Paul Beaudry is currently Professor at the Vancouver School of Economics at the University of British Co...
Michael D. Bordo is a Board of Governors Professor of Economics and director of the Center for Monetary and ...
Darrell Duffie (Stanford University)
Martin Eichenbaum (Northwestern University)
Jonathan Hartley (Stanford University)
Campbell R. Harvey (Duke University)
Darrell Duffie is The Adams Distinguished Professor of Management and Professor of Finance at...
Martin Eichenbaum is the Charles Moskos Professor of economics and the co-director of the Center...
Jonathan S. Hartley serves as a secretary and member of the Canadian Group of Economists and is...
Campbell R. Harvey is a Canadian economist and Professor of Finance at the Fuqua School of Business...
Jack Mintz (University of Calgary)
Stephen Poloz (Osler, Hoskin & Harcourt LLP and former Bank of Canada Governor)
Richard Rogerson (Princeton University)
Carolyn Wilkins (Bank of England, Princeton University and former Bank of Canada Senior Deputy Governor)
Jack M. Mintz is the President’s Fellow of the School of Public Policy at the University of Calgary after serving as the Palmer...
Stephen Poloz served as the 9th Governor of the Bank of Canada from 2013-2020, having also worked at...
Richard Rogerson joined the faculty of Princeton University in spring of 2011, where he is the Charles and Marie...
Carolyn Wilkins is a senior research scholar at Princeton University’s Griswold Center for Economic Policy, where she is...
Stephen Williamson (University of Western Ontario)
Randall Wright (University of Wisconsin)
Stephen Williamson is currently the Stephen A. Jarislowsky Chair in Central Banking at the University of...
Randall Wright is the Ray B. Zemon Chair in Liquid Assets in the Department of Finance, Investment and Banking
Mission Statement
The Canadian Group of Economists is non-partisan group of eminent Canadian academic economists that meets regularly. It functions as a consultative group for Canadian economic policy, similar in function to the G30 group and French Cercle des économistes, and is focused on Canadian and international economic issues.
Current Roster
Michelle Alexopoulos (University of Toronto)
Steve Ambler (Université du Québec à Montréal)
Paul Beaudry (UBC and former Bank of Canada Deputy Governor)
Michael Bordo (Rutgers University and Hoover Institution)
Darrell Duffie (Stanford University)
Martin Eichenbaum (Northwestern University)
Jonathan S. Hartley (Stanford University)
Campbell R. Harvey (Duke University)
Jack Mintz (University of Calgary)
Stephen Poloz (Osler, Hoskin & Harcourt LLP and former Bank of Canada Governor)
Richard Rogerson (Princeton University)
Carolyn Wilkins (Bank of England, Princeton University and former Bank of Canada Senior Deputy Governor)
Stephen Williamson (University of Western Ontario)
Randall Wright (University of Wisconsin)
Michelle Alexopoulos (University of Toronto)
Michelle Alexopoulos is a Professor of Economics at the University of Toronto with a cross appointment to the Faculty of Information. She is currently the President of the Canadian Economics Association, a fellow of the Bank of Canada, a Canadian Productivity Partnership collaborator, and a faculty affiliate at the Schwartz Reisman Institute for Technology and Society, the Data Sciences Institute, and the School of Cities at U of T. Alexopoulos is a macroeconomist whose research focuses on business cycles, monetary policy, technical change, economic uncertainty, labor markets and productivity. Her research, supported by numerous public and private grants, has been published in top tier economics journals, and has been presented at numerous central banks, international conferences, academic departments, and the National Academy of Sciences.
Steve Ambler (Université du Québec à Montréal)
Steve Ambler taught at l’École des sciences de la gestion de l’Université du Québec à Montréal (ESG UQAM) from 1985-2020, and chaired the Department from 2012-2015.
In 2023, he won the Doug Purvis Memorial Prize alongside Jeremy Kronick and Thor Koeppl for C.D. Howe Institute Commentary "The Consequences of the Bank of Canada's Ballooned Balance Sheet."
Ambler has held visiting positions at the Université de Paris I (Panthéon-Sorbonne), the European University Institute, the Institut für Höhere Studien in Vienna, and the Oesterreichische Nationalbank (Austrian central bank).
He is the author of numerous articles in journals such as the Journal of Monetary Economics, the Review of Economics and Statistics, and the Journal of Money, Credit and Banking.
He is a past president of the Société canadienne de science économique (1998-1999). He has been an Associate Editor of the Canadian Journal of Economics (1992-1995) and of Canadian Public Policy (1998-2003). He was on secondment to the Bank of Canada as Special Adviser from September 2006 to July 2007.
He was Secretary-Treasurer of the Canadian Economics Association from 2007 to 2012.
Paul Beaudry (UBC and former Bank of Canada Deputy Governor)
Paul Beaudry is currently Professor at the Vancouver School of Economics at the University of British Columbia. From 2019 to 2023, Professor Beaudry was Deputy Governor at the Bank of Canada. In that position he oversaw the Financial Stability Department, the International Department and the Research Department. Professor Beaudry was also the Bank of Canada Deputy for G7 and G20 meetings. Professor Beaudry has previously held faculty positions at Oxford University, Boston University and the Université de Montréal. He has been a visiting Professor at MIT, Sorbonne Paris, the European University Institute and the Université de Toulouse. Professor Beaudry has published widely in the areas of macroeconomics, monetary policy, labour economics, technical change, and economics growth. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada and a Research Associate at the U.S. National Bureau of Economic Research, Professor Beaudry held the Canada Research Chair in Macroeconomics from 2001-2015 and was a Fellow of the Bank of Canada from 2005-2015.
Professor Beaudry received a BA from Laval University (1983), an MA in Economics from the University of British Columbia (1984), and a PhD in Economics from Princeton University (1989). He was born in Montreal.
Michael Bordo (Rutgers University and Hoover Institution)
Michael D. Bordo is a Board of Governors Professor of Economics and director of the Center for Monetary and Financial History at Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey. He has held previous academic positions at the University of South Carolina and Carleton University in Ottawa, Canada. Bordo has been a visiting professor at the University of California, Los Angeles, Carnegie Mellon University, Princeton University, Harvard University, and Cambridge University, where he was Pitt Professor of American History and Institutions. He is currently a Distinguished Visiting Fellow at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University. He has been a visiting scholar at the International Monetary Fund, the Federal Reserve Banks of St. Louis, Cleveland, and Dallas, the Federal Reserve Board of Governors, the Bank of Canada, the Bank of England, and the Bank for International Settlement. He is a research associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research, Cambridge, Massachusetts. He is also a member of the Shadow Open Market Committee. He has a BA degree from McGill University, an MSc in economics from the London School of Economics, and PhD from the University of Chicago in 1972. He has published many articles in leading journals and eighteen books on monetary economics and monetary history. His latest book is The Historical Performance of the Federal Reserve: The Importance of Rules. Stanford CA: Hoover Institution Press 2019.He is editor of a series of books for Cambridge University Press: Studies in Macroeconomic History.
Darrell Duffie (Stanford University)
Darrell Duffie is The Adams Distinguished Professor of Management and Professor of Finance at Stanford Graduate School of Business. He is a fellow and member of the Council of the Econometric Society, a research fellow of the National Bureau of Economic Research, and a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Duffie was the 2009 president of the American Finance Association. In 2014, he chaired the Market Participants Group, charged by the Financial Stability Board with recommending reforms to Libor, Euribor, and other interest rate benchmarks. Duffie’s recent books include How Big Banks Fail (Princeton University Press, 2010), Measuring Corporate Default Risk (Oxford University Press, 2011), and Dark Markets (Princeton University Press, 2012).
Martin Eichenbaum (Northwestern University)
Martin Eichenbaum is the Charles Moskos Professor of economics and the co-director of the Center for International Economics at Northwestern University. He is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, a fellow of the Econometric Society, a Research Associate of the NBER, a member of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, Medicine Roundtable on Macroeconomics and Climate-related Risks, and an International Fellow of the C.D. Howe Institute. In addition, he is a Director of the Bank of Montreal (BMO) as well as the Aaron Institute for Economic Policy at the Interdisciplinary Center Herzlia. He is currently the co-editor of the NBER Macro Annual. He was co-editor of the American Economic Review as well as an associate editor of the Journal of Monetary Economics, the American Economic Journal - Macro, and the Journal of Money, Credit and Banking. He is currently a consultant to the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco. He has served as a consultant to the Board of the Governors of the Federal Reserve System, the Federal Reserve Banks of Atlanta, Cleveland and Chicago as well as the International Monetary Fund, Hightower Associates and Goldman Sachs. He received a PhD in economics from the University of Minnesota.
Jonathan Hartley (Stanford University)
Jonathan S. Hartley serves as a secretary and member of the Canadian Group of Economists and is an economist studying the role of regulation in finance, labor, and housing as well as topics in empirical macro and development economics. He is currently an economics PhD Candidate at Stanford University, a Research Fellow at the Foundation for Research on Equal Opportunity, and a Senior Fellow at the Macdonald-Laurier Institute.
Jon also is the host of the Capitalism and Freedom in the 21st Century economics podcast and serves as chair of the Economic Club of Miami.
Jon is a graduate of the University of Chicago (B.A. in Economics and Mathematics with Honors), from The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania (M.B.A.), and the Harvard Kennedy School (M.P.P.).
Jon has previously worked at Goldman Sachs Asset Management as a Fixed Income Portfolio Construction and Risk Management Associate and as a Quantitative Investment Strategies Client Portfolio Management Senior Analyst and in various governmental roles at the World Bank, IMF, Committee on Capital Markets Regulation, U.S. Congress Joint Economic Committee, the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago, and the Bank of Canada.
Jon is also a regular economics contributor in several news outlets and was named to the 2017 Forbes 30 Under 30 Law & Policy list, the 2017 Wharton 40 Under 40 list and was previously a World Economic Forum Global Shaper.
Campbell R. Harvey (Duke University)
Campbell R. Harvey is a Canadian economist and Professor of Finance at the Fuqua School of Business, Duke University in Durham, North Carolina as well as a Research Associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research in Cambridge, Massachusetts. He served as President of the American Finance Association in 2016.
Professor Harvey obtained his doctorate at the University of Chicago in business finance. He has served on the faculties of the Stockholm School of Economics, the Helsinki School of Economics, and the Booth School of Business at the University of Chicago. He has also been a visiting scholar at the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System.
Harvey received the 2015, 2016, 2022 and 2023 Best Paper Awards from The Journal of Portfolio Management for his research on distinguishing luck from skill. He has also received nine Graham and Dodd Awards/Scrolls for excellence in financial writing from the CFA Institute. He has published over 150 scholarly articles on topics spanning investment finance, emerging markets, corporate finance, behavioral finance, financial econometrics and computer science.
Harvey is a Founding Director of the Duke-CFO Survey. This widely watched quarterly survey polls over 1,500 CFOs worldwide.
Harvey serves as the Investment Strategy Advisor to Man Group PLC, the world’s largest, publicly listed, global hedge fund provider. He is also Director of Research and a Partner at Research Affiliates, LLP, who oversees more than $130 billion in investment products.
Harvey edited The Journal of Finance – the leading scientific journal in his field and one of the premier journals in the economic profession from 2006-2012. Over the past eight years, Professor Harvey has taught “Innovation and Cryptoventures” at Duke University. The course focuses on DeFi (decentralized finance) and web3 innovation. His coauthored book DeFi and the Future of Finance was named one of the Best Books of 2021 by Bloomberg-BusinessWeek.
Jack Mintz (University of Calgary)
Jack M. Mintz is the President’s Fellow of the School of Public Policy at the University of Calgary after serving as the Palmer Chair and founding Director from January 1, 2008, to June 30, 2015.
He is a board member of Mackenzie Health, York Region, Ontario and the Aristotle Foundation for Public Policy. He is a Distinguished Senior Fellow, MacDonald-Laurier Institute, Senior Fellow at the C.D. Howe Institute, and research fellow at International Tax and Investment Centre in Washington D.C., CESIfo Germany and Oxford’s Centre of Business Taxation. He is a member of the editorial board of International Tax and Public Finance. He is weekly contributor to the Financial Post of Canada.
Dr. Mintz became a member of the Order of Canada in 2015 as well as receiving the Queen Elizabeth Diamond Jubilee Medal in 2012 for service to the Canadian tax policy community and Queen Elizabeth Platinum Medal in 2023 for serving as chair of the Alberta Premier’s Economic Recovery Council from 2020 to 2022.
Stephen Poloz
(Osler, Hoskin & Harcourt LLP and former Bank of Canada Governor)
Stephen Poloz served as the 9th Governor of the Bank of Canada from 2013-2020, having also worked at the Bank from 1981-1995. In the intervening years, he was with BCA Research and then Export Development Canada, serving the latter as Chief Economist and later as President and CEO. Today, he is a Special Advisor at Osler, Hoskin & Harcourt, and a corporate director. He is also author of the national best seller, 'The Next Age of Uncertainty', published by Penguin Random House Canada.
Richard Rogerson (Princeton University)
Richard Rogerson joined the faculty of Princeton University in spring of 2011, where he is the Charles and Marie Robertson Professor of Economics and Public Affairs. He is also the Director of the Louis A. Simpson Center for the Study of Macroeconomics. He obtained his Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Minnesota in 1984 and has previously held faculty positions at the University of Rochester, New York University, Stanford University, the University of Minnesota, the University of Pennsylvania, and Arizona State University. Dr. Rogerson’s teaching and research interests are in the fields of Macroeconomics and Labor Economics. His published work includes papers on labor supply and taxes, business cycle fluctuations, the effects of labor market regulations, financing of public education, and development. He currently serves as Editor of the American Economic Journal: Macro and Associate, and has previously served as Co-Editor of the American Economic Review and Associate Editor of the Journal of Monetary Economics, the Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control, the Review of Economic Dynamics and the International Economic Review. He is a Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research and a fellow of the Econometric Society.
Carolyn Wilkins (Bank of England, Princeton University and former Bank of Canada Senior Deputy Governor)
Carolyn Wilkins is a senior research scholar at Princeton University’s Griswold Center for Economic Policy, where she is a lecturer in the Department of Economics. She is also an external member of the Financial Policy Committee at the Bank of England and serves on the board of directors of Canada’s Intact Financial Corporation. Wilkins worked for twenty years at the Bank of Canada, and served as Senior Deputy Governor from 2014 to 2020. She has contributed to international financial regulation, including as a member of the Financial Stability Board and the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision. In 2022-23, she was one of three panelists leading the external review of the Reserve Bank of Australia. Wilkins earned her MA from the University of Western Ontario and her BA from Wilfrid Laurier University, both in economics. She received an Honorary Doctorate from Wilfrid Laurier University in 2022
Stephen Williamson (University of Western Ontario)
Stephen Williamson is currently the Stephen A. Jarislowsky Chair in Central Banking at the University of Western Ontario. He received his BSc (Honours, Mathematics, 1977), and MA (Economics, 1979) from Queen’s University, and his PhD (Economics, 1984) from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He has held positions at the Bank of Canada, the Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis, and the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis, as well as academic positions at Queen’s University, the University of Western Ontario, the University of Iowa, and Washington University in St. Louis. Steve has published extensively in peer-review journals, including the American Economic Review, the Quarterly Journal of Economics, the Review of Economic Studies, the Journal of Political Economy, and the Journal of Monetary Economics. He has been a visitor at Australian National University, Seoul National University, Fudan University, the London School of Economics, the Bank of Canada, and the Federal Reserve Banks of Cleveland, Minneapolis, St. Louis, Atlanta, Richmond, and Kansas City, among other research institutions.
Randall Wright (University of Wisconsin)
Randall Wright is the Ray B. Zemon Chair in Liquid Assets in the Department of Finance, Investment and Banking at the Wisconsin School of Business, as well as a Professor in Wisconsin’s Department of Economics. He previously held faculty positions at the University of Pennsylvania and Cornell, and was a National Fellow at Stanford’s Hoover Institution. He is currently a consultant for the Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis, a Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research, and a Fellow of the Econometric Society and Society for the Advancement of Economic Theory. He has a B.A. (Economics) from University of Manitoba, a Ph.D. (Economics) from University of Minnesota, and an M.A. (Honorary) from University of Pennsylvania.
Professor Wright is well known for his work on monetary, macro and labor economics, with over 100 publications. From 1998 to 2008, he was the Editor of International Economic Review, and is currently Associate Editor at Journal of Economic Theory and Advisory Editor at Macroeconomic Dynamics. He has won several awards for his research, and currently has the highest “degree centrality” in economics (basically, greatest number of coauthors).