Professor Steve Ambler taught at l’École des sciences de la gestion de l’Université du Québec à Montréal (ESG UQAM) from 1985-2020, and chaired the Department from 2012-2015.
In 2023, he won the Doug Purvis Memorial Prize alongside Jeremy Kronick and Thor Koeppl for C.D. Howe Institute Commentary “The Consequences of the Bank of Canada’s Ballooned Balance Sheet.”
His paper “Putting Money Back in Monetary Policy” was published in the special 50th anniversary issue of Canadian Public Policy/Analyse de politiques in 2024.
Ambler has held visiting positions at the Université de Paris I (Panthéon-Sorbonne), the European University Institute, the Institut für Höhere Studien in Vienna, and the Oesterreichische Nationalbank (Austrian central bank).
He is the author of numerous articles in journals such as the Journal of Monetary Economics, the Review of Economics and Statistics, and the Journal of Money, Credit and Banking.
He is a past president of the Société canadienne de science économique (1998-1999). He has been an Associate Editor of the Canadian Journal of Economics (1992-1995) and of Canadian Public Policy (1998-2003). He was on secondment to the Bank of Canada as Special Adviser from September 2006 to July 2007.
He was Secretary-Treasurer of the Canadian Economics Association from 2007 to 2012.