Michelle Alexopoulos is a Professor of Economics at the University of Toronto with a cross appointment to the Faculty of Information. She holds a PhD in economics and is a qualified expert witness in the areas of technical change, macroeconomics and applied econometrics.
Dr. Alexopoulos is currently an Executive of the Canadian Economics Association, co-chair of the Canadian Economics Diversity Committee, a member of the C.D. Howe Business Cycle Council (currently on leave), and a Canadian Productivity Partnership collaborator. She is also a Faculty Affiliate at the Schwartz Reisman Institute for Technology and Society, the Data Sciences Institute, and the School of Cities at the University of Toronto. She has recently completed her term as the President of the Canadian Economics Association and has been a Bank of Canada Fellow since 2019.
Her research primarily focuses on business cycles, monetary policy, technical change, economic uncertainty, labor markets and productivity. Her research, supported by public and private grants, has been published in top tier economics journals, and has been presented at numerous Central Banks, international conferences, academic departments, industry think tanks, and the National Academy of Sciences.
Dr. Alexopoulos was born in Toronto, Ontario. She completed an Honours Bachelor of Science degree from the University of Toronto specializing in economics and mathematics, and has a master’s and Ph.D. in economics from Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois.