FRASER INSTITUTE - Key Persons
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- Senior Fellow
- Professor of Philosophy, Bridgewater State University
Aeon J. Skoble, Senior Fellow at the Fraser Institute, is a professor of philosophy and chairman of the Philosophy Department at Bridgewater State University in Massachusetts. Widely regarded for his innovative methods of teaching economic key concepts and the philosophy behind markets and voluntary exchange, Professor Skoble has frequently lectured and written for the U.S.-based Institute for Humane Studies and the Foundation for Economic Education. He is the author of The Simpsons and Philosophy and Deleting the State: An Argument about Government. Skoble received a BA from the University of Pennsylvania and his MA and PhD from Temple University.
Where there's hunger, it's typically due to politics, not because the global food supply is depleted.
Blind obedience to one's superiors is unlikely to bring about the best outcomes.
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- Senior Editor
- Senior Fellow
- Senior Fellow and Senior Editor With
Alan W. Dowd is a Senior Fellow of the Fraser Institute, Senior Editor of Fraser Insight and Managing Director of the Institute's EFNA Network. In addition, Dowd conducts research into defence and security issues. He co-authored the Fraser Institute report Cybersecurity Challenges for Canada and the United States; has contributed to the Institute's Economic Freedom of North America Annual Report (EFNA); helped launch the Institute's EFNA Network in 2014; and continues to manage and coordinate the EFNA Network, which today enfolds 57 member-organizations in 44 U.S. states, Canada and Mexico. An award-winning writer, Dowd is a frequent contributor to American Legion Magazine, Military Officer, The American, Landing Zone, and American Outlook. In addition, his writing has appeared in Fraser Forum, Claremont Review of Books, Policy Review, Parameters, Journal of Diplomacy & International Relations, Diplomat & International Canada, World Politics Review, World & I, National Post, Baltimore Sun, Washington Times, Washington Examiner, Sacramento Bee, Indianapolis Star, Detroit News, Vancouver Sun, Wall Street Journal Europe, Jerusalem Post, Financial Times Deutschland, and the online editions of the American Interest, National Review, and Weekly Standard. Dowd has served as an adjunct professor at Butler University and Anderson University; was a founding member of the Sagamore Institute leadership team, where he continues to hold a senior fellow post; and was director of Hudson Institute's corporate headquarters. He earned a B.A. with departmental high honors from Butler University and an M.A. from Indiana University.
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- Associate Director, Atlantic Canada Prosperity With
- Associate Director, Atlantic Canada Prosperity, Fraser Institute / Health Care
Alex Whalen is Associate Director, Atlantic Canada Prosperity with the Fraser Institute and coordinator of the activities of the Atlantic Canada division. Prior to joining the Institute, Alex was Vice-President of the Atlantic Institute for Market Studies (AIMS), which merged with the Fraser Institute in 2019. He is a graduate of the Schulich School of Law at Dalhousie University, and the School of Business at the University of Prince Edward Island. He brings prior experience as an entrepreneur and business manager to his work at the Institute. His writing has appeared widely in newspapers including the Globe and Mail, National Post, Chronicle Herald, Telegraph Journal, Calgary Herald, and others.
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- Member of the Board of Directors
- Vice Chair
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- Member of the Board of Directors
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- Professor of Economics, Samford University, Brock School of Business
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- Director of the Fraser Institute 's Centre for Health Policy Studies
- Director, Health Policy Studies
Bacchus Barua is Director of the Fraser Institute's Centre for Health Policy Studies. He completed his BA (Honours) in Economics at the University of Delhi (Ramjas College) and received an MA in Economics from Simon Fraser University. Bacchus has conducted research on a range of key health care topics including hospital performance, access to new pharmaceuticals, the impact of aging on health care expenditures, and international comparisons of health care systems. He also designed the Provincial Healthcare Index (2013) and is the lead author of The Effect of Wait Times on Mortality in Canada, and Waiting Your Turn: Wait Times for Health Care in Canada (2010-2014).
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- Senior Fellow
- Senior Fellow in Fiscal and Provincial
Ben Eisen is a Senior Fellow in Fiscal and Provincial Prosperity Studies and former Director of Provincial Prosperity Studies at the Fraser Institute. He holds a BA from the University of Toronto and an MPP from the University of Toronto's School of Public Policy and Governance. Prior to joining the Fraser Institute Mr. Eisen was the Director of Research and Programmes at the Atlantic Institute for Market Studies in Halifax. He also worked for the Citizens Budget Commission in New York City, and in Winnipeg as the Assistant Research Director for the Frontier Centre for Public Policy. Mr. Eisen has published influential studies on several policy topics, including intergovernmental relations, public finance, and higher education policy. He has been widely quoted in major newspapers including the National Post, Chronicle Herald, Winnipeg Free Press and Calgary Herald.
Population growth often leads to faster economic growth, but that doesn't necessarily mean the economy is doing well.
The government can hold nominal spending flat for one year without creating any management challenges.
The province is on track to add more debt than it did during the 2008/09 recession and pandemic.
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- Executive Assistant to the President
- Executive VP
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- Member of the Board of Directors
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- Member of the Democracy & Governance Team
- Professor of Law at Queen 's University
Bruce Pardy is professor of law at Queen's University, senior fellow with the Fraser Institute, and executive director of Rights Probe (rightsprobe.org). A critic of legal progressivism and the discretionary managerial state, he has written on a range of subjects at the front lines of the culture war inside the law, including environmental governance, climate change, energy policy, human rights and freedoms, professional and university governance, property and tort theory, free markets, and the rule of law. He has taught at law schools in Canada, the United States and New Zealand, practiced civil litigation at Borden Ladner Gervais LLP in Toronto, served as adjudicator and mediator on the Ontario Environmental Review Tribunal, and has published and commented widely in traditional and online media. He is one of the co-creators of the Free North Declaration, a public petition and movement to protect civil liberties in Canada from COVID-19 irrationality and overreach.
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- Director, Communications
- Media Inquiries
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- Digital Marketing Coordinator
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- Member of the Board of Directors
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- Accounts Payable Administrator
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- Professor of Economics at Nipissing University
Christopher A. Sarlo is professor of economics at Nipissing University in North Bay, Ontario, as well as a senior fellow with the Fraser Institute. He is the author of Poverty in Canada (Fraser Institute, 1992, 1996), Measuring Poverty in Canada (Fraser Institute, 2001, 2006), and What is Poverty? Providing Clarity for Canada (Fraser Institute, 2008). Some of his recent publications include Understanding Wealth Inequality in Canada, Consumption Inequality in Canada: Is the Gap Growing?, Child Care in Canada: Examining the Status Quo in 2015, and Income Inequality Measurement Sensitivities. Professor Sarlo has published a number of articles and studies on poverty, inequality and economic issues relating to the family.
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- Senior Fellow
- Professor of Economics, University of Victoria
Professor van Kooten is the recipient of numerous academic and professional awards, including being named a Fellow of the Canadian Agricultural Economics Society.
He received a B.Sc. in Geophysics from the University of Alberta, an M.A. in Economics from the University of Alberta, and a Ph.D. in Agricultural & Resource Economics from Oregon State University.
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- Co - Founder
- Senior Fellow
- Economist
- Principal, Paprika Consulting Inc.
Csaba Hajdú is a Senior Fellow of the Fraser Institute. Mr. Hajdú is an economist with expertise in the field of market conditions, profitability, investment, productivity, and labour costs.
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- Senior Fellow
- Professor of Economics, George Mason University
Daniel Klein, Senior Fellow at the Fraser Institute, is professor of economics and JIN Chair at the Mercatus Center at George Mason University, where he leads a program in Adam Smith. He is the author of Knowledge and Coordination: A Liberal Interpretation (Oxford UP, 2012) and coauthor of Curb Rights: A Foundation for Free Enterprise in Urban Transit (Brookings Institution, 1997). He is the chief editor of Econ Journal Watch.
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- Coordinator, Development Events
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- Associate Director, Development Events
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- Senior Fellow
- Associate Professor of Economics, University of Lethbridge
Danny Le Roy, Senior Fellow of the Fraser Institute, is an Associate Professor of Economics at the University of Lethbridge. He specializes in agricultural economics and has completed research on such critical agricultural issues as livestock production and trade, commodity pricing, and emerging markets for irrigation water.
Le Roy has served as an executive member of the Canadian Agricultural Economics Society, the Alberta Agricultural Economics Association, and the Tiffin Conference Organizing Committee. He has published in and reviewed papers for the Canadian Journal of Economics, Current Agriculture, Food and Research Issues, Canadian Public Policy, and Western Economic Forum.
He received his BA (Honours) in Economics from Carleton University and his MSc and PhD in Agricultural Economics from the University of Guelph.
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- Senior Fellow
- Senior Fellow in Social Policy
Dave Quist is a Senior Fellow in Social Policy at the Fraser Institute. He completed his Bachelor of Science studies at the University of Oregon and his Master of Public Administration at Queen's University. He was the founding Executive Director for the Institute of Marriage and Family Canada, a think tank which focused on social policy and was the Vice President for the Manning Centre for Building Democracy. In addition, he has many years experience working with elected officials from municipal to the federal level. He has written numerous national and regional op-eds as well as being active through social media.
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- Emeritus Professor
- Professor of Economics, U.S. Naval Postgraduate School
David R. Henderson is an emeritus professor of economics with the Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey, California, a research fellow with the Hoover Institution, and a senior fellow of the Fraser Institute.
Professor Henderson is a widely respected public policy expert and educator. He is also the editor of The Concise Encyclopedia of Economics, a comprehensive but accessible summary of economics.
Born and raised in Canada, Professor Henderson earned a B.Sc. degree in mathematics from the University of Winnipeg before heading south to complete his Ph.D. in economics at the University of California, Los Angeles.
He is a frequent contributor to The Wall Street Journal and was previously a frequent contributor to Fortune. He has also written scholarly articles for the Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, Journal of Monetary Economics, Cato Journal, Regulation, Contemporary Policy Issues, and Energy Journal.
Professor Henderson served as a senior economist on President Reagan's Council of Economic Advisers from 1982 to 1984, specializing in energy and health policy.
Bernanke chose to pay interest on bank reserves, which caused banks to hold onto reserves rather than lend them out.
Donald Trump doesn't understand the benefits of trade, and Hillary Clinton has criticized trade on the campaign trail.
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- Member of the Board of Directors
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- Professor at the Bridwell Institute for Economic Freedom
- Research Associate Professor, Bridwell Institute for Economic Freedom
Dean Stansel is a Research Associate Professor at the Bridwell Institute for Economic Freedom in the Cox School of Business at Southern Methodist University. He earned his B.A. in economics (with honors) and politics from Wake Forest University and his M.A. and Ph.D. in economics from George Mason University. Before entering academia, Prof. Stansel worked for seven years at the Cato Institute, a public-policy research organization in Washington, D.C., where he produced over 60 publications on fiscal policy issues. In addition to his work on Economic Freedom of North America, he is sole author of the Reason Foundation's U.S. Metropolitan Area Economic Freedom Index, as well as the author of numerous academic journal articles on a variety of issues in public finance and urban economics. Prof. Stansel's research has been discussed in many publications including the Wall Street Journal, New York Times, San Francisco Chronicle, and Atlanta Journal-Constitution; and his commentaries have appeared in the Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, Investor's Business Daily, Chicago Tribune, and Dallas Morning News, among others.
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- Senior Fellow
- Senior Fellow and Former Director of the Barbara Mitchell Centre for Improvement
Deani Van Pelt is a Senior Fellow and Former Director of the Barbara Mitchell Centre for Improvement in Education at the Fraser Institute. Following her studies at McMaster University (B.Comm.) and the University of Toronto (B.Ed.) she taught mathematics and business subjects in both public and private secondary schools. She then completed her M.Ed. and Ph.D. in Education at The University of Western Ontario where she was awarded the Bishop Townshend Gold Medal Award for excellence in graduate studies. From 2006 to 2014 she served at Redeemer University College, first as Assistant Professor and then as Associate Professor of Education. During this time she led several international research collaborations funded by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, taught a variety of courses including Systems of Education, and was Director of Teacher Education for four years. Her research and publications in Canadian education policy include studies in home schooling, independent schooling and education funding. She has presented numerous times over the last two decades in academic and practitioner conferences across North America. Recently a co-author of the Fraser Institute studies Education Spending in Canada: What's Really Happening? and Financial Savings: Restructuring Education in Ontario Using the British Columbia Model, she continues to appear on TV and in radio talk shows across Canada. Her work has been featured in many Canadian newspapers including the National Post and Globe and Mail and she has served as an expert witness.
More than one of every five students in Alberta and Saskatchewan attend a Roman Catholic separate school.
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- Distinguished Professor
- Professor of Economics, History, English, and Communication, Univeristy of Illinois
Deirdre N. McCloskey is Distinguished Professor of Economics, History, English, and Communication at the University of Illinois at Chicago. Trained at Harvard as an economist, she has written 25 books, edited seven more, and has published some 400 academic articles on economic theory, economic history, philosophy, rhetoric, feminism, ethics, and law. Her most recent popular books are Why Liberalism Works: How True Liberal Values Produce a Freer, More Equal, Prosperous World for All (Yale University Press, 2019), Leave Me Alone and I'll Make You Rich: The Bourgeois Deal with Art Carden (University of Chicago Press, 2020), and The Myth of the Entrepreneurial State with Alberto Mingardi (Adam Smith Institute and American Institute for Economic Research). McCloskey is also the author of the highly acclaimed three-part series: The Bourgeois Virtues: Ethics for an Age of Capitalism (U. of Chicago Press, 2006), Bourgeois Dignity: Why Economics Can't Explain the Modern World (U. of Chicago Press, 2010), and Bourgeois Equality: How Ideas, Not Capital or Institutions, Enriched the World (U. of Chicago Press, 2016).
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- B.C. Teacher Union Wages Wrongheaded War on Student Testing
- Professor Emeritus, Faculty of Education, the University of Western Ontario
Derek J. Allison, B.Ed., M.Ed., Ph.D., is a Professor Emeritus in the Faculty of Education at the University of Western Ontario. Derek began his teaching career in England, before moving to Alberta, where he was a school principal. After completing his graduate work at the University of Alberta, he accepted a position with the faculty of education at the University of Western Ontario. Where he taught social and legal foundations of education for 36 years, and skillfully guided hundreds of graduate students through advanced research and study. He gained acclaim for his teaching, especially his outstanding lectures, and his skill as a mentor and advisor to graduate students. He has an extensive record in research and publication with particular interests in the organization and operation of schools, theories of leadership, and the philosophy of inquiry. He is the recipient of 10 teaching awards and the Distinguished Service Award of the Canadian Association for the Study of Educational Administration.
The province's Grade 4 students suffered learning losses due to pandemic disruptions.
Manitoba, Saskatchewan and New Brunswick are among the lowest-scoring provinces on both assessments.
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- Manager, Education Programs
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- Member of the Board of Directors
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- Professor of Economics, George Mason University
Donald J. Boudreaux is a Professor of Economics and former Economics Department Chair at George Mason University and a Senior Fellow with the Fraser Institute. He is also a Senior Fellow with the F.A. Hayek Program for Advanced Study in Philosophy, Politics, and Economics at the Mercatus Center at George Mason University, and holds the Martha and Nelson Getchell Chair for the Study of Free Market Capitalism at the Mercatus Center. He has a Ph.D. in economics from Auburn University and law degree from the University of Virginia.
Professor Boudreaux is committed to making economics more accessible to a wider audience, and he has lectured across the United States, Canada, Latin America, and Europe on a wide variety of topics, including the nature of law, antitrust law and economics, and international trade. He is published in a variety of newspapers and journals, including The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Times, and The Supreme Court Economic Review and writes a blog (with Russell Roberts) called Café Hayek, cafehayek.com.
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- DeSantis Distinguished Professor of Finance
- Distinguished Professor of Finance and Entrepreneurship, Florida Atlantic University
- Finance and Entrepreneurship, Florida Atlantic University
Douglas Cumming is the DeSantis Distinguished Professor of Finance and Entrepreneurship at the College of Business, Florida Atlantic University as well as a Visiting Professor of Finance at Birmingham Business School, University of Birmingham, UK. Previously, he was a Professor and the Ontario Research Chair at the Schulich School of Business, York University. Professor Cumming received his BA in economics and finance from McGill University, his masters from Queen's University and PhDs in both economics and finance as well as law from the University of Toronto. Professor Cumming is also a Certified Financial Analyst.
He has published over 185 articles in leading refereed academic journals in finance, management, and law and economics, and his work has been cited over 17,000 times according to Google Scholar. His is the Founding Managing Editor-in-Chief of the Review of Corporate Finance (2021-), the Managing Editor-in-Chief of the British Journal of Management (2020-2022) and the Journal of Corporate Finance (2018-2020). Professor Cumming has written 18 academic books covering a host of financial and regulatory issues.
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- Emergency Room Physician from Toronto
- Practicing Emergency Room Physician
Dr. Brett Belchetz is a practicing emergency room physician from Toronto, Canada. He has an undergraduate degree in Statistical Sciences from the University of Western Ontario and an M.D. from the University of Toronto. He was the chief resident of his post graduate training program at the University of Toronto. Prior to practicing medicine, Dr. Belchetz was a management consultant with McKinsey and Company. He is a regular commentator on health-related issues and is featured regularly as a medical expert on CTV's The Marilyn Denis Show.
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- Senior Fellow
- Associate Research Professor, University of Calgary
Dr. Jehangir Appoo, Senior Fellow at the Fraser Institute, is an Associate Research Professor at the University of Calgary where he works on clinical research in cardiac surgery. He helped establish 2 new programs within the cardiac surgery division at the U of Calgary in artificial heart surgery and thoracic aortic surgery. He has published over 50 peer reviewed scientific manuscripts, given over 100 lectures and serves on the Editorial Board of journals within the field of heart surgery. Dr. Appoo consults with international medical device companies on helping with designing the future. He is interested in technological adoption in medicine for therapeutics, diagnostics and infrastructure needs. He mentors & helps scale medical startup companies that are using exponential technologies like AI, IoT medical, & 3D printing. He looks to the innovation ecosystem to improve healthcare outcomes whilst simultaneously maintaining fiscal responsibility.
Dr. Appoo has degrees in Hons Biochem (1993)and Medicine (1997) from McGill University, & Cardiac Surgery from U of Alberta. He then did subspecialty fellowship training at the Royal Brompton Hospital, Imperial College (2004), in the UK & at U of Pennsylvania (2005) in Philadelphia.
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- Senior Fellow
- Policy Researcher
Dr. Nigel Rawson is a pharmacoepidemiologists and pharmaceutical policy researcher in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan. Educated in the United Kingdom, he holds an MSc in statistics and a PhD in pharmacoepidemiology. Dr. Rawson has performed epidemiologic studies of the use of drugs and their outcomes for over 40 years and published more than 150 book chapters and articles in peer-reviewed journals. He is also the author of the monograph "Drug Safety: Problems, Pitfalls and Solutions in Identifying and Evaluating Risk."
Dr. Rawson held academic research positions in the United Kingdom until the end of 1989 and subsequently held professorships at the University of Saskatchewan and Memorial University of Newfoundland in Canada. His research activities focused on population-based studies of the use and safety of drugs using administrative healthcare utilization data and the evaluation of issues impacting access to new drugs. Dr. Rawson has also been a senior researcher in an independent research centre in one of the United States' largest health insurers, where he collaborated with the Food and Drug Administration on drug safety studies, and GlaxoSmithKline's only epidemiologist in Canada, providing advice and analysis for the company's current and developing medicines and vaccines. Between 2012 and 2020, Dr. Rawson was President of Eastlake Research Group whose mission was to create evidence-based responses to pharmaceutical and health policy issues. He continues this work as an independent researcher.
Drug developers are more likely to invest in research and development if prices for their medicines are high.
In 2017, the federal government introduced new regulations for the drug review board.
New drugs are approved later in Canada than in the United States and European Union.
Regardless of their potential impact on patient health, drug approval times in Canada were longer than in other countries.
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- President of the
- Radiologist
Dr. Robert Ouellet is a radiologist based in Laval, Québec. He was President of the Quebec Medical Association from 2005 to 2007, served as President of the Canadian Medical Association (CMA) from 2008 to 2009, and later served as the Canadian representative at the World Medical Association.
As president of the CMA, Dr. Ouellet championed health policy reforms including patient cost-sharing and private-sector involvement to reduce government spending and surgical wait times in Canada. He conducted a fact-finding tour of five European countries and met with 35 organizations to study ways to eliminate inefficiencies in the Canadian health care system.
Dr. Ouellet has worked in both the private and the public health sectors for the past 25 years. In 1987, while Chief of Radiology at Cité de la Santé in Laval, he opened the first private CT-scan clinic in Canada. In 1997 and 2000, he opened two MRI clinics in Laval.
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- Media Relations Coordinator, Eastern Canada
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- Associate Director, Development
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- Director, Natural Resource Studies
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- Coordinator, Education Programs
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- Professor of Economics, MacEwan University
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- Associate Professor of Economics in the Argyros School of Business
- Associate Professor of Economics, Chapman University
Erik O. Kimbrough, PhD, is an Associate Professor of Economics in the Argyros School of Business and Economics at Chapman University and Senior Fellow at the Fraser Institute. Kimbrough holds a BA from The George Washington University, in Washington, DC, and an MS and PhD from George Mason University, in Fairfax, VA. Professor Kimbrough's research uses laboratory experiments to study the economics of conflict resolution, cooperation and institutions, with a particular focus on how economic institutions develop and adapt. Kimbrough has twice received SSHRC grants, most recently a five-year Insight Grant to study the underpinnings of economic institutions. He has published papers in leading journals such as the American Economic Review, International Economic Review, and Journal of the European Economic Association, among others.
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- Associate Professor in the Department of Economics
- Professor of Economics, University of Calgary
Eugene Beaulieu is an Associate Professor in the Department of Economics at the University of Calgary. Mr. Beaulieu joined the department after completing his Ph.D. at Columbia University in New York City in 1997. Mr. Beaulieu's research examines the political economy and distributional consequences of international trade policy in Canada and the United States. He was awarded the 1998 Petro-Canada Young Innovators Award to study the impact of CUSTA and NAFTA on closures of manufacuring plants in the United States and Canada. More recently, Mr. Beaulieu was awarded a three-year SSHRC grant to conduct research on the history of the political economy of Canada's trade policy. Mr. Beaulieu held the 2003 Killam Resident Scholar and sits on the Academic Advisory Council to the Deputy Minister of International Trade in the Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade for the Government of Canada.
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- Fellow
- Resident
- Resident Fellow, Dr. Michael a. Walker Chair in Economic Freedom
Fred McMahon is a Fraser Institute Resident Fellow and holder of the Dr. Michael A. Walker Chair in Economic Freedom. He has an M.A. in Economics from McGill University. Mr. McMahon manages the Economic Freedom of the World Project and coordinates the Economic Freedom Network, an international alliance of over 100 think tank partners in about 100 nations and territories. His research focuses on global issues such as development, trade, governance and economic structure. Mr. McMahon is the author of numerous research articles and several books including, Looking the Gift Horse in the Mouth: The Impact of Federal Transfers on Atlantic Canada, which won the Sir Antony Fisher International Memorial Award for advancing public policy debate, Road to Growth: How Lagging Economies Become Prosperous, and Retreat from Growth: Atlantic Canada and the Negative Sum Economy.
He has written for numerous publications including the European Journal of Political Economy, the SAIS Journal (School of Advanced International Studies, Johns Hopkins University), the Wall Street Journal, Policy Options, National Post, Time (Canada), Globe and Mail, Ottawa Citizen, and most other major Canadian newspapers. Research articles he has recently authored or co-authored include: Economic Freedom of North America, Quebec Prosperity: Taking the Next Step, The Unseen Wall: The Fraser Institute's Annual Trade Survey, and Economic Freedom of the Arab World.
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- Senior Development Associate
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- Professor Emeritus, Simon Fraser University
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- Professor of Agricultural Economics and Business, University of Guelph
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- Professor Emeritus of Economics, Simon Fraser University
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- Senior Policy Analyst
- Senior Policy Analyst ( on Leave )
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- Senior Fellow
- Professor of Economics, Florida State University
James D. Gwartney was a Professor of Economics and the Gus A. Stavros Eminent Scholar at Florida State University. He was the coauthor of Economics: Private and Public Choice (Cengage/South-Western Press, 2021), a widely used principles of economics text that is now in its 17th edition. He was also coauthor of an economics primer, Common Sense Economics: What Everyone Should Know about Wealth and Prosperity (St. Martin's Press, 2016). His publications have appeared in both professional journals and popular media such as the Wall Street Journal and the New York Times. He served as Chief Economist of the Joint Economic Committee of the US Congress during 1999-2000. In 2004, he was the recipient of the Adam Smith Award of the Association of Private Enterprise Education for his contribution to the advancement of free-market ideals. He was a past President of the Southern Economic Association and the Association for Private Enterprise Education. His Ph.D. in economics was from the University of Washington.
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- Executive Vice - President
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- Professor Emeritus in Economics, École Nationale D'Administration Publique
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- President, Pacific Academy for Advanced Studies
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- Associate Professor of Economics, Thompson Rivers University
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- Professor Emeritus of Economics, Simon Fraser University
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- Professor of Economics, Western Washington University
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- Member of the Board of Directors
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- Member of the Board of Directors
- Vice Chair
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- Senior Fellow ( on Leave )
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- Associate
- Chairman
- Senior Fellow
- Chairman of the Department of Economics, West Virginia University
Joshua C. Hall is Associate Dean of Research, Chair of the Department of Economics, and Professor of Economics, all in the John Chambers College of Business & Economics at West Virginia University. He earned his B.B.A. and M.A. in economics from Ohio University and his Ph.D. from West Virginia University. Prior to returning to his alma mater, he was the Elbert H. Neese, Jr. Professor of Economics at Beloit College. He is currently serving as Part President of the Association of Private Enterprise Education and is also a Senior Fellow at the Fraser Institute. He is the author of over 70 articles in journals such as Contemporary Economic Policy, Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, Journal of Labor Research, Southern Economic Journal, Public Finance Review, and Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory.
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- Head of Research, Caminos De La Libertad
RJosé Torra is the head of research at Caminos de la Libertad, a member of the Economic Freedom Network; its mission is to promote discussion about, and reflection upon, the different aspects of freedom. He holds a degree in economics from the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Mexico City. He is also the author of the book, Jonestown: Religión y Socialismo, published by the Friedrich Naumann Foundation.
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- Assistant Professor of Economics, Creighton University
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- Professor of Economics, Lakehead University
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- Member of the Democracy & Governance Team
- Professor of Political Science, University of Windsor
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- Co - Director of the Institute for Regulatory Law & Economics, University of Colorado - Denver
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- Development Associate, Central Canada
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- Senior Coordinator, Development Events
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- Director, Human Resources
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- Professor of Economics, University of Vermont
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- Senior Media Relations Specialist
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- Professor of Economics, St. Mary 's University
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- Chairman of the Board of Directors
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- Senior Fellow
- Senior Fellow in the Centre for Economic Freedom
- Senior Fellow, Centre for Economic Freedom
Matthew D. Mitchell is a Senior Fellow in the Centre for Economic Freedom. Prior to joining the Fraser Institute, Mitchell was a long-serving senior fellow at the Mercatus Center at George Mason University, where he remains an affiliated senior scholar. He is also a senior research fellow at the Knee Regulatory Research Center at West Virginia University.
Mitchell received his PhD and MA in economics from George Mason University and his BA in political science and BS in economics from Arizona State University. His writing and research focuses on economic freedom, public choice economics, and the economics of government favoritism.
Mitchell has testified before the U.S. Congress and several state legislatures. He has advised federal, state, and local government policymakers in the United States on both fiscal and regulatory policy. His research has been featured in numerous national media outlets, including the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, the Washington Post, National Public Radio, and C-SPAN.
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- Founder
- Honorary Director
- Member of the Board of Directors
- Co - Founder and Honourary Chairman for Life
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- Director, Addington Centre for Measurement
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- Coordinator, Education Programs
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- Professor of Law, University of Alberta
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- Member of the Board of Directors
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- Professor of Economics, Stanford University, National Bureau of Economic Research / Education Policy
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- President
- President, Fraser Institute / Environment
The Fraser Institute is an independent, non-partisan research and educational organization based in Canada. We have offices in Calgary, Halifax, Montreal, Toronto, and Vancouver.
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- Member of the Board of Directors
- Co - Founder and Honourary Board Member
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- Associate Director, Education Policy
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- Professor of Economics, and Founding Director, Center for Neuroeconomics, Claremont Graduate University
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- Professor of Economics and Philosophy, George Mason University
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- Member of the Board of Directors
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- Manager, Video and Motion Graphics
Philip Cross spent 36 years at Statistics Canada, the last few years as its Chief Economic Analyst. He wrote Statistics Canada's monthly assessment of the economy for years, as well as many feature articles for the Canadian Economic Observer. After leaving Statistics Canada, he worked for the Macdonald-Laurier Institute. He has been widely-quoted over the years, and now writes a bi-weekly column for the National Post and other papers.
The Nobel apparently endorsed a paper that contradicts the vast majority of research on minimum wages and job losses.
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- Professor of Social Sciences, École Nationale D'Administration Publique
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- Member of the Democracy & Governance Team
- Professor Emeritus of Political Science, University of Calgary
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- Senior Fellow
- Clinical Professor in Economics
- Clinical Professor in Economics and Director, Bridwell Institute for Economic Freedom, Southern Methodist University
Robert A. Lawson is Clinical Professor in Economics, Jerome M. Fullinwider Centennial Chair in Economic Freedom, and Director of the Bridwell Institute for Economic Freedom in the Cox School of Business at Southern Methodist University. He earned his B.S. in economics from the Honors Tutorial College at Ohio University and his M.S. and Ph.D. in economics from Florida State University. A Senior Fellow at the Fraser Institute, he has numerous professional publications in journals such as Public Choice, Cato Journal, Journal of Labor Research, Journal of Institutional and Theoretical Economics, and the European Journal of Political Economy. Prof. Lawson has served as President of the Association of Private Enterprise Education and is a member of the Mont Pelerin Society.
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- Public Administration, University of Victoria
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- Distinguished Senior Fellow, Mercatus Center at George Mason University
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- Member of the Board of Directors
- Vice Chair, BC
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- Instructor of Economics at Texas Christian University
Rosemarie Fike is an Instructor of Economics at Texas Christian University and a Senior Fellow of the Fraser Institute. She received her M.A. in Economics at George Mason University, and her Ph.D. in Economics at Florida State University. She is an alumna of the Mercatus Center's MA Fellowship and Adam Smith Fellowship programs. Her current research focuses on understanding the effects that different types of economic institutions have on the lives and status of women. Indeed, Ms. Fike is the principal author of the Institute's work on women, progress, and economic freedom (available at http://womenandprogress.org). In 2017, she received the Addington Prize for Measurement. Her work has been published in the Eastern Economics Journal, Journal of Economic Education, and Journal of Benefit/Cost Analysis. She has published opinion editorials in news outlets such as US News and World Report, The Hill, and Roll Call.
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- Professor of Economics, University of Guelph
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- Professor of Economics & Entrepreneurship, Baker School of Business at the Citadel
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- Director, Education Programs
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- Dean, E. Claiborne Robins Distinguished Professorship in Leadership Studies, University of Richmond
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- Member of the Board of Directors
- Vice Chair, on
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- Coordinator, Education Programs
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- Associate Founder and Academic Advisor, Singularity University / Trade & US
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- Human Resources Coordinator
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- Associate Director, Digital Marketing
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- Professor of Economics, Simon Fraser University
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- Senior Fellow and Addington Chair in Measurement
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- Member of the Board of Directors
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- Resident Scholar ( 2019 - 20 )
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- Associate Director, Alberta Policy
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- Clinical Associate Professor of Economics, College of Business, University of Texas at Arlington
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- Political Science and Distinguished Fellow, School of Public Policy, University of Calgary
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- Director, Finance and Accounting
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- Research Fellow, Independent Institute
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- Assistant Professor of Economics, George Mason University
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- Senior Fellow
- Senior Fellow, Fraser Institute / Taxes
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- Manager, Finance and Accounting
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- Director of Research and Policy at the Puerto Rico Institute for Economic Liberty
- Director of Research and Policy, Puerto Rico Institute for Economic Liberty
Ángel Carrión-Tavárez is Director of Research and Policy at the Puerto Rico Institute for Economic Liberty. He is an editor, educator, and multidisciplinary researcher. He has a B.A. in Social Sciences from the University of Puerto Rico, an M.A. in Humanities from California State University, and a Ph.D. in Integration and Economic and Territorial Development from Universidad de León (Spain). He was founder and editor of the economic and public-policy magazine, Panorama 21 (published in English, Spanish, and Portuguese); managing editor of the business weekly, Caribbean Business; and editor-in-chief and president of the Board of the peer-reviewed journal, Fórum Empresarial. He is the author of numerous publications in academic journals and the media, and received the "Teodoro Moscoso Special Award for Business Journalism" from the Overseas Press Club in 2006 and the "Unesco Medal of Excellence in Journalism" in 2005. He has been the academic co-ordinator of the Certificate in Editing and Publishing Arts; a professor of Regional and Business Geography; and the director of the Center for Business Research at the University of Puerto Rico.