July 24, 2014 – William Robson, President and CEO of the C.D. Howe Institute, announces the re-appointment of distinguished economist William Watson as a Research Fellow.
“Bill Watson has been at the forefront of Canada’s main economic policy debates throughout his career,” said Robson. “He has contributed to better understanding of Canada’s economic challenges in many ways, including as co-editor a major C.D. Howe Institute series of social policy studies, and we look forward to even closer collaboration in the years ahead.”
Born and raised in Montreal, William holds a Ph.D. from Yale and has taught economics at McGill since 1977. He served as Department Chair from 2005 to 2010.
In 1997, he took a 21-month leave from McGill and served as editorial pages editor of the Ottawa Citizen. His 1998 book, Globalization and the Meaning of Canadian Life, was runner-up for the Donner Prize for best Canadian policy book of the year. He writes on economics and other matters weekly in the National Post and every other week in the Ottawa Citizen. In 1989, a story of his in Saturday Night magazine won the National Magazine Awards Gold Medal for humour.
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