David Andolfatto
Professor of Economics, Department of Economics, Simon Fraser University
Vice President in the Research division of the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis
David Andolfatto is a Senior Vice President in the Research Department at the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis. He was a professor of economics at the University of Waterloo (1991-2000) and Simon Fraser University (2000-2009), before joining the Fed in July 2009. Mr. Andolfatto has published several articles in the profession's leading economic journals, including the American Economic Review, the Journal of Political Economy, and the Journal of Economic Theory. In 2009, he was awarded the Bank of Canada Fellowship Award for his contributions in the area of money, banking, and monetary policy. Mr. Andolfatto is a native of Vancouver, Canada and received his Ph.D. in economics from the University of Western Ontario in 1994.
Diane Bellemare
Senator of Quebec
Formerly: Senior Vice-President and Chief Economist at Conseil du patronat du Québec
Diane Bellemare, Ph.D. in Economics from McGill and M.A. from Western Ontario, was a full professor of economics at UQAM. With both an academic and professional career, she has been a member of the Economic Council of Canada, CEO of the Société Québécoise de Développement de la Main-d'œuvre, President of the Commission des partenaires du marché du travail and Vice-President of the Conseil du patronat du Québec.
She published several books and academic articles on the subjects of full employment, income security, pension and population aging. The last one, Créer et Partager la Prospérité, 2013, was published by the Presses de l’Université du Québec.
She has been a Senator for Quebec since 2012, served as Legislative Coordinator in the Office of the Government Representative in the Senate from 2016 to 2019 and is now a member of the Independent Senators Group.
Kevin Carmichael
Journalist, Financial Post
Senior Fellow, Centre for International Governance Innovation
Kevin Carmichael is the National Business Columnist at the Financial Post and a senior fellow at the Centre for International Governance Innovation.Carmichael has been writing about the Bank of Canada and economics generally since 2000, first for Bloomberg News, then the Globe and Mail, Canadian Business magazine, Maclean’s, FiveThirtyEight, and NBC News Think from Ottawa, Washington, Mumbai, and, currently, Montreal.
Since joining the Post in 2018, he has written extensively about Canadian monetary policy, interviewing the governor and senior deputy governor. Carmichael won gold for commentary at SABEW Canada's 2018 Best in Business awards and was part of the Financial Post team that earned silver in the breaking news category.
David Dodge
Economist & Former Governor of the Bank of Canada and former Deputy Minister of Finance Canada
Dodge served a seven-year term as Governor of the Bank of Canada from 2001 to 2008.. In 2008, he joined Bennett Jones LLP, a leading Canadian law firm, as a senior advisor in their Ottawa office. He was made an Officer of the Order of Canada in 2007. In 2008, he was elected as incoming chancellor of Queen's University. Dodge co-chairs the Global Market Monitoring Group of the Institute of International Finance, is chairman of the board of directors of the C.D. Howe Institute, and the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research, and is a member of the board of directors of Canadian Utilities Limited.
Previously, he was Assistant Professor of Economics at Queen's University, Associate Professor of Canadian Studies and International Economics at the School of Advanced International Studies at Johns Hopkins University, Senior Fellow in the Faculty of Commerce at the University of British Columbia, and Visiting Professor in the Department of Economics at Simon Fraser University. He has also served as Director of the International Economics Program of the Institute for Research on Public Policy.
He was appointed Deputy Minister of Finance in 1992. In the 1996 book Double Vision, by Edward Greenspon and Anthony Wilson-Smith, the authors describe in detail the role which Dodge played in reviving Canada's economy by working closely with Finance Minister Paul Martin to eliminate the federal budget's deficit spending.
While Deputy Minister of Health from 1998, Dodge's role in founding the Winnipeg National Microbiology Laboratory was commended as critically important by laboratory director-general Frank Plummer.
Angela Redish
Professor of Economics, Vancouver School of Economics, University of British Columbia
Angela received her PhD from the University of Western Ontario and has been a Professor of Economics in the Faculty of Arts at UBC since then. Her teaching and research have focused on the history of monetary and banking systems in Europe and North America. In 2000-2001, she served as Special Advisor at the Bank of Canada.
From 2001 to 2006 she was Head of the Department of Economics. From 2012 to 2015 she was Vice Provost and AVP at UBC and from 2015 to July 2017 she served as UBC’s Provost and Vice President Academic pro tem. She is the immediate Past President of the Canadian Economics Association.