Peter Jarrett, OECD; and Alexandra Iwanchuk Bibbee, OECD
Thursday June 14, 2012 Toronto Roundtable Event - The OECD’s 2012 Economic Survey: Improving Innovation and Education Outcomes
Peter Jarrett and Alexandra Bibbee discussed the macroeconomic situation, policy settings and outlook, as well as their advice on improving Canadian innovation performance and tertiary education outcomes.
Peter Jarrett is a senior official of the Paris-based Organisation of Economic Cooperation and Development, an inter-governmental organisation comprising 30 mainly industrialised nations whose goal is to provide members with policy advice in every area except justice, culture and defense. He has been a staff member of the Economics Department since 1985. He began as an expert in supply-side econometric modeling before heading a series of country desks, notably those of France, Belgium/Luxembourg, Portugal, the United States, Iceland, Japan and Ireland. Since 1999 he has headed a Country Studies division that has comprised a variety of member and non-member countries. Currently his stable includes Canada, New Zealand, France, Poland, Spain, Switzerland, Indonesia, Brazil and Israel. Before coming to the OECD Peter spent over five years working in the Research Department of the Bank of Canada. He holds a BA from the University of Toronto (Victoria) and a PhD from Harvard (1979).
Alexandra Iwanchuk Bibbee is a senior economist at the Paris-based Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development, an inter-governmental organization comprising 33 mainly industrialised nations committed to democracy and the market economy. She has been a staff member of the Economics Department since 1990, having worked in the balance of payments, fiscal affairs and general economic assessment policy areas and on the country desks for Germany, Austria, Turkey, Italy, and Norway. She currently serves as head of desk for Canada and New Zealand. Before coming to the OECD Alexandra held positions at the International Monetary Fund and the US Treasury. She has a B.A. from Kent State University (Ohio) and a PhD from the University of Wisconsin – Madison (1988).
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