William B.P. Robson, President and Chief Executive Officer, C.D. Howe Institute
January 31, 2012 Toronto Roundtable Event - Ottawa's $250-Billion Pension Gap: How to Fix Canada's Underfunded Public-Sector Pensions
Bill Robson took office as President and CEO of the C.D. Howe Institute in July 2006, after serving as the Institute’s Senior Vice President since 2003 and Director of Research since 2000.
Mr. Robson has written extensively on government budgets, pensions, healthcare financing, and on inflation and currency issues. His work on demographic change and health care financing won an award from the federal Policy Research Secretariat, and his work on monetary policy with David Laidler has won prizes from the Canadian Economics Association and the Donner Canadian Foundation. Mr. Robson chairs the C.D. Howe Institute’s Monetary Policy Council. He has written a regular column for The Globe and Mail, and is a familiar commentator on economic issues in the media.
Mr. Robson serves as an advisor to, or director of, several education-related and public affairs organizations. He lectured on public finance and public policy at the University of Toronto from 2000 to 2003 and is a Senior Fellow at Massey College. Before joining the C.D. Howe Institute in 1988, he held positions as an economist with Wood Gundy Inc. and the federal Department of Energy, Mines and Resources.
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