Dr. Avery Shenfeld

Dr. Avery Shenfeld
Avery Shenfeld is a Managing Director and Chief Economist with the
wholesale banking arm of CIBC, having been with the firm since 1993.
He holds a Ph.D. in economics from Harvard University. Avery follows
economic developments and their implications for financial markets. He
was recently named by Bloomberg as one of the top five forecasters of
the US economy in the past two years, is a two time winner of Dow-Jones
Market Watch’s award for most accurate US forecaster, and has been
ranked by fixed income investors among the leading five economists in
Canada. His prior background includes seven years in management
consulting, and experience on the economics faculty at the University of
Toronto and in the summer program at Harvard’s John F. Kennedy School
of Government. He has addressed numerous business groups and been
quoted in the media in the United States, Canada, Asia and Europe.