Born in Lévis, Quebec, Pierre Fortin is Professor of Economics at the Université du Québec à Montreal. His broad research areas are economic growth, monetary and fiscal policies, social policy, and the economies of Canada and Quebec. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada and a member of the Research Council of the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research. He is Past-President of the Canadian Economics Association, and was for some time a member of the Economic Advisory Panel of the Minister of Finance of Canada, and the Chief Economic Advisor to the Premier of Quebec.

In 1995, he was selected as “the most distinguished Quebec economist of the last decade” by the Quebec Association of Professional Economists. In 1997, he was awarded the Douglas Purvis Memorial Prize as the author of “the best recent book or article published on Canadian economic policy.” Since 1999, he has been the economic columnist at the French-language magazine L’actualité. He has received the Gold Award of the National Magazine Awards Foundation (in 2004, and again in 2008), and the Grand Prix of the Quebec Association of Magazine Editors (in 2009) for “the best regular column in a Canadian magazine.”

Dr. Fortin holds a Ph.D. in economics from the University of California at Berkeley, an Master of Science degree in mathematics from the Université de Montréal, and a Bachelor’s degree in classical humanities from the Collège des Jésuites de Québec.

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