Daniel Trefler, Rotman School, University of Toronto
Tuesday October 23, 2012 Annual Sylvia Ostry Lecture and Luncheon: International Trade, Innovation and Productivity
Dan Trefler is the J. Douglas and Ruth Grant Canada Research Chair in Competitiveness and Prosperity at the Rotman School. He was born and raised in Toronto. He has degrees in economics from the University of Toronto (B.A.), Cambridge University (M.Phil.), and UCLA (Ph.D.).
His primary affiliations have been with the University of Toronto (1989-94), the University of Chicago (1994-96) and again with the University of Toronto (since 1997). He is currently a Research Fellow at the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research. As well, he is a Research Associate at the Institute for Policy Analysis (University of Toronto), a Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research, a member of the Academic Advisory Board for Canada's Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade and serves on the Ontario Task Force on Competitiveness, Productivity and Economic Progress. He is the recipient of the Canadian Economics Association's Rae Award for Excellence in Research and is co-editor of the Journal of International Economics.
Trefler's research centres on the interface of international trade with institutions, technological change, skill acquisition, income distribution, and domestic politics. His current research focuses on the domestic and international levers for promoting Canadian competitiveness. Much of this research is done in conjunction with the Ontario Task Force and its research arm, the Institute for Competitiveness & Prosperity.
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