March 16, 2015 – William Robson, President and CEO of the C.D. Howe Institute, announces the re-appointment of Åke Blomqvist as a Fellow-In-Residence and the Institute’s Health Policy Scholar.
“Åke is an outstanding scholar and expert on healthcare,” said Robson. “His contribution to the C.D. Howe Institute’s research on challenges and potential reforms to Canadian healthcare has been hugely valuable. We are delighted to continue working with him on ways to ensure that Canadians will enjoy high-quality, fiscally sustainable healthcare in the years ahead.”
Dr. Blomqvist received his undergraduate education in his native Sweden, and a PhD from Princeton University in 1971. He is Professor Emeritus at the University of Western Ontario where he taught between 1968 and 2002. Since 2011, he has been Adjunct Research Professor at Carleton University.
His recent work, co-authored by Colin Bubsy, includes “Rethinking Canada’s Unbalanced Mix of Public and Private Healthcare: Insights from Abroad,” and “Paying for the Boomers: Long-Term Care and Intergenerational Equity.”
From 2002 till 2010 he lived in Asia, serving as Head of Economics in the National University of Singapore 2002-06 and as Professor in the Center for Human Capital and Labor Economics Research at the Central University of Finance and Economics in Beijing in 2009-2010.
Dr. Blomqvist is also a member of the Institute’s National Council, an esteemed group of Canadians tasked with providing guidance for the Institute’s top-quality research program.
For more information please contact: James Fleming of the C.D. Howe Institute at 416-865-1904; email:jfleming@cdhowe.org.
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