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Oct 27

Debate: Be it resolved that the Alberta economy should diversify, not double down on oil production

Calgary AB, Crystal Ballroom, Fairmont Palliser, 133-9th Avenue S.W.

Annual Calgary Dinner with Joseph Doucet and Jack Mintz

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Dean Doucet and Professor Mintz will debate the motion “Be it resolved that the Alberta economy should diversify, not double down on oil production.” Dean Doucet will argue in favour and Professor Mintz will be opposed. Join us at this lively debate!

Joseph A Doucet, PhD, ICD.D, Stanley A Milner Professor and Dean, Alberta School of Business, University of Alberta

Joseph Doucet became Dean of the Alberta School of Business on July 1, 2013.  He joined the School in 2000 and, from 2005, was the Enbridge Professor of Energy Policy.  He has held faculty or visiting appointments at Université Laval, the University of Florida, and Université Montpellier (France).  He earned his PhD from the University of California, Berkeley.

Under Dean Doucet’s leadership, the Alberta School of Business continues to build on its globally recognized research excellence and outstanding learning environment while growing its impact in the areas of energy and the environment, entrepreneurship, and international business.  The School’s vision is “Leaders from Alberta for the World.”

Doucet’s research interests are in the areas of energy and regulatory economics and policy.  He regularly provides strategic advice to firms and governments in these areas.  His research has appeared in journals such as the Journal of Regulatory Economics, the Canadian Journal of Economics, Energy Economics and The Energy Journal.  He is a past President of the Canadian affiliate of the International Association for Energy Economics (IAEE).  He is a member of the Editorial Board of the Journal of Regulatory Economics and, between 2000 and 2006, he was Editor of the journal Energy Studies Review.

Doucet currently sits on the boards of the Climate Change and Emissions Management Corporation (CCEMC), the EPCOR Community Essentials Council (ECEC), the Institute of Certified Management Consultants of Alberta (CMC-Alberta) and La Fondation franco-albertaine. He is also a member of the C.D. Howe Institute’s Energy and Natural Resources Policy Council, and the City of Edmonton’s Mayor’s Taskforce on the Elimination of Poverty. In November 2015 Premier Rachel Notley appointed him Chair of the Premier's Advisory Committee on the Economy.

Joe and his wife Karen are the proud parents of four adult sons.

 

Jack Mintz, President's Fellow, School of Public Policy, University of Calgary

Dr. Jack M. Mintz is the President’s Fellow of the School of Public Policy at the University of Calgary as of July 1, 2015 after serving as the Palmer Chair and Director since 2008.

He also serves on the boards of Imperial Oil Limited, Morneau Shepell and is chair and Vice-President of the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada.  As of September 1 2015, he has been appointed as the National Policy Advisor for the accounting firm EY.

He serves as an Associate Editor of International Tax and Public Finance and the Canadian Tax Journal, and is a research fellow of CESifo, Munich, Germany, and the Centre for Business Taxation Institute, Oxford University.

Dr. Mintz held the position of Professor of Business Economics at the Rotman School of Business from 1989-2007 and Department of Economics at Queen’s University, Kingston, 1978-89. He was a Scholar-in-Residence at Columbia Law School 2016; Visiting Professor, New York University Law School, 2007; President and CEO of the C. D. Howe Institute from 1999-2006; Clifford Clark Visiting Economist at the Department of Finance, Ottawa; and Associate Dean (Academic) of the Faculty of Management, University of  Toronto, 1993 – 1995. He was founding Editor-in-Chief of International Tax and Public Finance, published by Kluwer Academic Publishers from 1994 – 2001.

He chaired the federal government’s Technical Committee on Business Taxation in 1996 and 1997 that led to corporate tax reform in Canada since 2000. He also has served as chair of the Alberta Financial and Investment Policy Advisory Commission in 2007 that reviewed saving policy of the Alberta government.  In addition, in 2009, he served as the Research Director of the FPT Research Working Group on Retirement Income and he was also the author of the Summary Report on Retirement Income Adequacy.  He served on the federal Panel on Healthcare Innovation in 2013-14 as well as the Minister of Finance’s Economic Advisory Council from December 2008-June 2015.

Dr. Mintz has consulted widely with the World Bank, the International Monetary Fund, the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development, federal and provincial governments in Canada, and various businesses and non-profit organizations.

Dr. Mintz became a member of the Order of Canada in 2015 as well as receiving the Queen Elizabeth Diamond Jubilee Medal in 2012 for service to the Canadian tax policy community. Widely published in the field of public economics, he was touted in a 2004 UK magazine publication as one of the world’s most influential tax experts. Alberta Venture magazine has recognized him as one of the fifty most influential Albertans in 2008, 2010 and 2013. The Financial Post named him one of the five most influential Canadians in regulation in 2012.

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