N. Gregory Mankiw
N. Gregory Mankiw is the Robert M. Beren Professor of Economics at Harvard University. As a student, he studied economics at Princeton University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. As a teacher he has taught macroeconomics, microeconomics, statistics and principles of economics. Professor Mankiw is a prolific writer and a regular participant in academic and policy debates. In addition to his teaching, research and writing, Professor Mankiw has been a research associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research and an advisor to the Federal Reserve Banks of Boston and New York and the Congressional Budget Office. From 2003 to 2005, he served as chairman of the US President’s Council of Economic Advisors and was an advisor to presidential candidate Mitt Romney during the 2012 US presidential election.
Ronald D. Kneebone
Ronald D. Kneebone is Professor in the Department of Economics and the School of Public Policy at the University of Calgary. He received his Ph.D. from McMaster University. Professor Kneebone has taught courses in public finance and in macroeconomics from principles through to the Ph.D. level, and he is a two-time winner of the Faculty of Social Sciences Distinguished Teacher Award at the University of Calgary. His research interests are primarily in the areas of public-sector finances and fiscal federalism, but he has recently worked on the problems of homelessness and poverty reduction. He shared with Kenneth J. McKenzie the Douglas Purvis Memorial Prize for the best published work in Canadian public policy in 1999. He is currently Scientific Director of the Social Policy and Health Research division of the School of Public Policy, where he leads a group of researchers investigating issues related to poverty, cognitive and physical disabilities, the organization and financing of health care, and homelessness.
Kenneth J McKenzie
Kenneth J. McKenzie is Professor in the Department of Economics at the University of Calgary. He received his Ph.D. from Queen’s University. Specializing in public economics with an emphasis on taxation and political economy, Professor McKenzie has published extensively in these areas. He is the winner of the 1996 Harry Johnson Prize (with University of Calgary colleague Herb Emery) for the best article in the Canadian Journal of Economics, a two-time winner of the Douglas Purvis Memorial Prize for a published work relating to Canadian public policy (in 1999 with Ronald D. Kneebone and in 2011 with Natalia Sershun), and a Faculty of Social Sciences Distinguished Researcher Award winner at the University of Calgary. He is a former editor of Canadian Public Policy and of the “Finances of the Nation” feature of the Canadian Tax Journal. Professor McKenzie has taught microeconomics and public economics from principles to graduate level and has received several departmental teaching awards.
