Bill Robson took office as President and CEO of the C.D Howe Institute in July 2006, after serving as the Institute’s Senior Vice President and Director of Research. He also chairs their Monetary Policy Council.

Mr. Robson has written extensively on government budgets, pensions, health care 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 him prizes from the Canadian Economics Association and the Donner Canadian Foundation. Mr. Robson writes a regular column for the Globe and Mail, and is a familiar commentator on economic issues in the media.

Mr. Robson 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, and before joining the C.D Howe Institute in 1998, he held positions as an economist with Wood Gundy Inc. and the federal Department of Energy, Mines, and Resources.