February 7, 2013 - The C.D. Howe Institute is pleased to announce the appointment of Dan Ciuriak as a Research Fellow. He will be focusing on international trade, investment and related issues.
"Dan's wide-ranging and internationally sought-after experience in trade-related public policy, development of legislation, and economic analysis in supporting litigation, will boost the Institute's capacity in its core international trade and investment research programs," said Daniel Schwanen, Assistant Vice President, Research, and international program manager.
In particular, "Dan will focus on leading-edge research questions, addressed through the Institute's International Economic Policy Council."
Previously, Ciuriak was Deputy Chief Economist at the Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade (DFAIT) with responsibility for economic analysis in support of trade negotiations and trade litigation, and served as contributing editor of DFAIT's Trade Policy Research series (2001-2007 editions).
Prior positions with DFAIT include acting as deputy to the Chair of the APEC Economic Committee and serving as Finance Counsellor at Canada's Embassy in Germany. Before joining DFAIT, he worked at the Department of Finance, including from 1983-1990 with the Financial Sector Policy Branch where he served as Project Director, Financial Institutions Reform Project, and chaired the Inter-Departmental Legislative Review Committee, which guided the development of the 1992 reforms that overhauled the federal financial institutions statutes.
Prior to joining Canada's Public Service, he studied at McMaster University in Hamilton (Masters in Economics in 1977).
He is also actively engaged in applied trade analysis working with public and private sector clients globally as Director and Principal, CiuriakConsulting Inc.
For more information contact: James Fleming, Vice President of Publications and Media, C.D. Howe Institute: (416) 865-1904.