September 24, 2019 – William Robson, President and CEO of the C.D. Howe Institute, announces the re-appointment of Pierre Fortin as a Research Fellow.
“Pierre’s has theoretical and practical insights on an extraordinary range of policy-relevant challenges,” said Robson. “He has contributed to the C.D. Howe Institute’s research program in many ways, and we are glad to have his continued support.”
“To be read and, most importantly, challenged by researchers who are among the most knowledgeable about economic policy in general and the Canadian economy in particular is the wonderful gift the Institute is providing its fellows,” said Fortin. “I can’t do without it.”
Pierre Fortin is Emeritus Professor of Economics at l'Université du Québec à Montréal, Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, and past president of the Canadian Economics Association. He has published widely in Canada and abroad, mainly in the areas of economic growth and fluctuations, labour markets, and monetary, fiscal and social policies.
Fortin has been awarded the Gold Medal of the Governor General of Canada, the Prize of the French Canadian Association for the Advancement of Science, the Douglas Purvis Memorial Prize (best publication on Canadian economic policy), four times the Gold Medal of the National Magazine Awards Foundation (best regular column in a Canadian magazine), and the titles of knight of the National Order of Quebec and commander of the Order of Montreal. In 1995, he was cited as “the most distinguished Quebec economist” of the decade by membership vote of the Quebec Association of Professional Economists (ASDEQ).
He has been an adviser to a Minister of Finance of Canada and chief economic adviser to a Quebec Premier. He holds baccalaureates in classical humanities and mathematics (BA and BSc Laval), a master in mathematics (MSc Montreal) and a doctorate in economics (PhD California at Berkeley).
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