Parisa Mahboubi is an Associate Director of Research at the C.D. Howe Institute, where she leads the human capital policy research program and chairs the Immigration Targets Council. Her research focuses on social policy, with a particular emphasis on immigration, demographics, and generational accounting, as well as education, skills, and labour market issues. Parisa has contributed extensively to Canadian public policy debates through publications, conferences, panel discussions, advisory meetings, and media appearances. She also serves on the advisory board of The Education Promise, an initiative dedicated to transforming public education through actionable policy change.
Prior to joining the C.D. Howe Institute in 2016, Parisa worked at the Statistics Canada Research Data Centre and served as an Instructor and Research Assistant at the University of Guelph while completing her PhD studies. She holds a B.Sc. and M.Sc. in Economics from Shiraz University, as well as an M.A. and PhD in Economics from the University of Guelph. Her doctoral research focused on social security reform, technological change, and human capital accumulation, and examined the skills, education, and labour market outcomes of second-generation immigrants in Canada.