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 Ken McKenzie the Douglas Purvis Memorial Prize for the best published work in Canadian public policy in 1999. He is currently the Director of Social Policy research in the School of Public Policy, where he leads a group of researchers investigating issues related to poverty, domestic violence, the use of food banks, and the vexing problem of 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 1996Harry 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(1999 with Ron Kneebone and 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 the principles to the graduate level and has received several departmental teaching awards.
Robert Gillezeau
Rob Gillezeau is an Assistant Professor of Economic Analysis and Policy at the University of Toronto in the Rotman School of Management. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Michigan. His research is primarily focused on the economies of Indigenous Peoples, the economic history of Indigenous Peoples, and state discrimination. He has published in leading journals, including the Review of Economic Studies, and he is a regular economic commentator in outlets including The New York Times, The Globe and Mail, The Guardian. Rob is a co-founder of the Canadian Economics Association’s Indigenous Economics Study Group (IESG) and a founding member of the Canadian Economics Diversity Committee (CEDC). He is an affiliated scholar at the Stone Center on Socio-economic Inequality and a J-PAL invited researcher. Prior to his academic appointment, Rob served as the Chief Economist in the Office of the Leader of the Official Opposition from 2011 until 2015 in Ottawa, Ontario, and as the Chief of Staff to the Minister of Finance and Deputy Premier of British Columbia in Victoria, British Columbia, from 2017 to 2019.
