Monetary Policy Council Member
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Lloyd Atkinson is an independent economic and financial consultant.
For nine years, until June 2003, he served as Vice Chairman, Chief Investment Officer, and Chief Strategist at Perigee Investment Counsel Inc.
Prior to joining the investment management industry in 1994, Dr. Atkinson was Executive Vice-President and Chief Economist at the Bank of Montreal, where he managed the economics department. For four years he also served as the head of the bank’s Investment Committee of the Pension Fund Society. Previously, he spent four years working for the United States government in Washington, D.C., first as Senior Advisor at the Joint Economic Committee of the U.S. Congress, and then as Deputy Assistant Director of the U.S. Congressional Budget Office. He has taught economics and finance at a number of American universities, including the University of Michigan and the University of Maryland, and also served as a consultant to the U.S. delegations at the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank.
Dr. Atkinson holds a Ph.D. in economics from the University of Michigan and an Honours Bachelor of Arts degree in economics and political science from the University of Windsor. He is a member of the School of Business and Economics Dean’s Advisory Board of Wilfrid Laurier University and Co-Chair of the “Together in Caring” campaign for the Windsor/Essex County Hospitals Foundation.