An International Fellow with the C.D. Howe Institute, Peter Howitt was awarded the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences from the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences in 2025.
Peter is a Professor Emeritus of Economics at Brown University and has written extensively on the foundations of macroeconomics and monetary theory, on Canadian monetary policy and on the theory of economic growth.
He taught at the University of Western Ontario from 1972 to 1996 and at the Ohio State University from 1996 to 2000.
In 2020, he was awarded the BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award for his work on economic growth, which stresses the importance of innovation, technological change, competition and productivity.