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London School of Economics. He was Professor of Economics at the University of Alberta from 1978 to 2012 and Distinguished Fellow in Tax and Economic Growth at the School of Public Policy at the University of Calgary from 2012 to 2020. Bev has published extensively on tax policy and fiscal federalism. He has served as an Associate Editor of Canadian Public Policy and a member of the editorial board of the Canadian Tax Journal. He has been a member of the Executive Council of the Canadian Economics Association and the National Statistics Council. Bev has also served as a policy advisor to the federal and provincial governments. In 2010-11, he was a member of the Expert Panel on Federal Support to Research and Development (Jenkins Panel) and the Ecofiscal Commission from 2014 to 2019. In July 2016, he was appointed Chair of the British Columbia Commission on Tax Competitiveness by the BC Minister of Finance. In May 2019, Bev was appointed by the Government of Alberta to the Blue Ribbon Panel to review the province’s finances. His international experience includes advisory work on tax reform for the IMF in Malawi, for the Thailand Development Research Institute, and for the World Bank in Brazil and Mexico.

Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation and the Fraser Institute’s Centre for Municipal Studies. He holds an M.A. in Political Science from Wilfrid Laurier University and a Bachelor of Urban and Regional Planning from Ryerson University. He conducts research and produces reports on land-use regulations, housing affordability, property taxation, and municipal finance. He also comments frequently (in English and French) on policy issues in these fields, notably through radio and television interviews, panel discussions, public presentations, and blogs and op-eds. His work has been featured in numerous news outlets including the Wall Street Journal, Globe and Mail, Toronto Star, Maclean’s, Detroit News, and Financial Post.

his doctorate at the University of Oxford where he worked on the idea of liberty and personal responsibility as they find expression in English literature. He is interested in the moral foundations of free markets and many other ideas central to understanding and protecting personal freedom (individual rights, private property, rule of law, spontaneous order, decentralization). He was a Fellow with Liberty Fund for three years and was Senior Director of Academic Initiatives at the Institute for Humane Studies in Washington, DC. Since 1997 he has taught at various Oxford Colleges, and lectured at several Universities in North America. In addition to his work with the Fraser Institute, he is active as a consultant and guest lecturer.Jonathan Fortier, Directeur de Libertarianism.org à l'Institut Cato, est titulaire d'une maîtrise en philosophie et d'un doctorat de l'Université d'Oxford, où il a travaillé sur les idées de liberté et de responsabilité personnelle, telles qu'elles ont été traitées dans la littérature en langue anglaise. Il s'intéresse à la moralité du libre marché ainsi qu'à de nombreuses autres idées essentielles à la compréhension et à la protection de la liberté personnelle (droits individuels, propriété privée, primauté du droit, ordre spontané, décentralisation). M. Fortier a été fellow du Liberty Fund pendant trois ans et directeur principal des initiatives universitaires à l'Institute for Humane Studies à Washington D.C. Depuis 1997, il a enseigné dans divers collèges d'Oxford et donné des conférences dans plusieurs universités nord-américaines. En plus de sa collaboration avec l'Institut Fraser, il travaille comme consultant et conférencier.

Texas at Arlington. Prof. Gabel holds a Ph.D. and M.Sc. in economics from the University of Texas (Dallas) and a B.Sc. from Simon Fraser University.  He is an expert in the field of U.S. and Canadian social policy with a particular focus on welfare. His articles have been published widely in journals and newspapers including the Canadian Journal of Economics, Fraser Forum, Vancouver Sun, and National Post.

appointments at Simon Fraser University and York University and has been a visiting professor at the University of California, University of British Columbia, Stockholm School of Economics, Copenhagen School of Business, and the Helsinki School of Economics.He has published more than 200 articles and monographs and is the author of the book The Impacts of 9/11 on Canada-U.S. Trade as well as a textbook on international business management. In the early 1990s, he was responsible for coordinating Fraser Institute research on the North American Free Trade Agreement.In addition, Mr. Globerman has served as a researcher for two Canadian Royal Commissions on the economy as well as a research advisor to Investment Canada on the subject of foreign direct investment. He has also hosted management seminars for policymakers across North America and Asia.Mr. Globerman was a founding member of the Association for Cultural Economics and is currently a member of the American and Canadian Economics Associations, the Academy of International Business, and the Academy of Management.He earned his BA in economics from Brooklyn College, his MA from the University of California, Los Angeles, and his PhD from New York University.