15th Biennial Conference
Connecting Communities: Canada, Australia and New Zealand
4-7 July 2010
University of New England - Armidale, NSW, AUSTRALIA
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15th Biennial Conference 4-7 July 2010 University of New England - Armidale, NSW, AUSTRALIA |
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Invited Speakers  Tom CourchenePhD, Economics (Princeton) Thomas J. Courchene was born in Wakaw, Saskatchewan, and was educated at the University of Saskatchewan (Honours BA, 1962) and Princeton University (Ph.D., 1967). From 1965 to 1988 he was a Professor of Economics at the University of Western Ontario. Dr. Courchene spent the fall term of 1986 as a visiting Professor at Ecole nationale d'administration publique (Montreal). For the academic year 1987/88, he occupied the John P. Robarts Chair in Canadian Studies at York University. In 1988, he accepted the Directorship of Queen's new School of Policy Studies (1988-92). Currently, Courchene is the Jarislowsky-Deutsch Professor of Economic and Financial Policy at Queen's, is a member of the Department of Economics, the School of Policy Studies and the Faculty of Law, and is Senior Scholar, Institute for Research on Public Policy in Montreal. Courchene is the author or editor of some 60 books and has published over 250 academic articles on a wide of Canadian public policy issues. These include a four volume series on Canadian monetary policy for the C.D. Howe Institute; In Praise of Renewed Federalism (C.D. Howe); Social Policy in the 1990s: Agenda for Reform (C.D. Howe) Equalization Payments: Past, Present and Future (Ontario Economic Council); Economic Management and the Division of Powers (Macdonald Royal Commission) and A First Nations Province (Institute of Intergovernmental Relations, Queen's). A collection of his recent articles appears as Rearrangements (Oakville, Mosaic Press). His 1994 book, Social Canada in the Millennium was awarded the Doug Purvis Prize for the best Canadian economic policy contribution in 1994 and his book, From Heartland to North American Region State: The Social, Fiscal and Federal Evolution of Ontario (1998, with Colin Telmer) won the inaugural Donner Prize for the best book on Canadian Public Policy. His on-going research interests include, in addition to the above areas, financial deregulation, the political economy of Canadian federalism, and comparative federal systems, climate change and the knowledge based economy. Dr. Courchene was Chair of the Ontario Economic Council from 1982 to 1985, has been a Senior Fellow of the C.D. Howe Institute (1980-99), is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada (elected 1981) and is a Past President (1991/92) of the Canadian Economics Association. He has received Honourary Doctorates of Laws from the University of Western Ontario (1997), the University of Saskatchewan (1999), and the University of Regina (2007). On the occasion of the 100th anniversary of the University of Saskatchewan (2007) Courchene was selected as one of the 100 Alumni of Influence. He is a recipient of the Molson Prize for lifetime achievement in the Social Sciences and Humanities (1999). His latest book A State of Minds: Toward a Human Capital Future for Canadians was published in 2001 by the Institute for Research on Public Policy (Montreal). In April of 1999, Thomas Courchene was invested as an Officer in the Order of Canada. |
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