President and Chief Executive Officer, C.D. Howe Institute

Keynote Speaker

Bill took office as President and CEO of the C.D. Howe Institute in July 2006, after serving as the Institute’s Senior Vice President since 2003 and Director of Research since 2000. Bill has written extensively on government budgets, pensions, healthcare financing, and on inflation and currency issues. His work on demographic change and health-care financing won an award from the federal Policy Research Secretariat, and his work on monetary policy with David Laidler has won prizes from the Canadian Economics Association and the Donner Canadian Foundation. Bill chairs the C.D. Howe Institute’s Monetary Policy Council. He writes a regular column for The Globe and Mail, and is a familiar commentator on economic issues in the media. Bill serves as an advisor to, or director of, several education-related and public affairs organizations. He lectured on public finance and public policy at the University of Toronto from 2000 to 2003. Before joining the C.D. Howe Institute in 1988, he held positions as an economist with Wood Gundy Inc. and the federal Department of Energy, Mines and Resources. He has a B.A. from the University of Toronto and an M.A. from the Norman Paterson School of International Affairs at Carleton University.