Monetary Policy Council Member
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Tim O’Neill |
Tim O'Neill is President of O'Neill Strategic Economics and a partner in TNET Management Consultants.He recently retired from BMO Financial Group where he served as Executive Vice President and Chief Economist from October 1994 until December 2004. For 12 years before that he taught in the Department of Economics at St. Mary's University in Halifax. He served as a consultant to several provincial governments, as well as the federal government.
Tim is a native of Sydney, Nova Scotia. He received his B.A. degree (with Honours) at St. Francis Xavier University, his M.A. at the University of British Columbia and his Ph.D. at Duke University, North Carolina. His academic awards include the Mackenzie King Scholarship and the Donner Fellowship.
In his teaching, research and consulting activities, he focused extensively on the structure and performance of the North American economy. Areas covered in his publications and public presentations range from macroeconomic forecasts and assessments of key sectors of the economy, to examination of broader themes, such as the employment effects of technological change and the economic impact of low literacy skills.
He is currently a Director of the ABC CANADA Literacy Foundation and a member of the National Statistics Council.
He is the first Canadian economist to be elected to the Board of Governors of the Washington-based National Association for Business Economics (NABE) and served as Vice President in 2001-02. He served as President from October 2002 until September 2003.