Stephen Williamson

Steve is currently the Stephen A. Jarislowsky Chair in Central Banking at the University of Western Ontario, and holds a Bank of Canada Fellowship. He is a member of the Monetary Policy Council of the C.D. Howe Institute. Steve received his BSc (Honours, Mathematics, 1977), and MA (Economics, 1979) from Queen’s University, and his PhD (Economics, 1984) from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He has held positions at the Bank of Canada, the Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis, and the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis, as well as academic positions at Queen’s University, the University of Western Ontario, the University of Iowa, and Washington University in St. Louis. Steve has published extensively in peer-reviewed journals, including the American Economic Review, the Quarterly Journal of Economics, the Review of Economic Studies, the Journal of Political Economy, and the Journal of Monetary Economics. He has been a visitor at Australian National University, Seoul National University, Fudan University, the London School of Economics, the Bank of Canada, and the Federal Reserve Banks of Cleveland, Minneapolis, St. Louis, Atlanta, Richmond, and Kansas City, among other research institutions.