Monetary Policy Council Member
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Christopher Ragan |
Christopher Ragan is an Associate Professor in the Department of Economics at McGill University in Montreal. Since his appointment to McGill University in 1989, he has taught a wide variety of courses. His research deals mainly with the role of economic policy, most recently the objectives and conduct of monetary policy. He has published several articles in academic journals including Economica, Labour Economics, Canadian Journal of Economics, Canadian Public Policy, Canadian Business Economics, and Policy Options. In 2004, he co-edited a book on public debt with his McGill colleague William Watson: Is the Debt War Over? Dispatches from Canada’s Fiscal Frontline.
Ragan is the co-author with Richard Lipsey of Economics (11th Edition), the most widely used introductory economics textbook in Canada. He is the founding Editor-in-Chief of World Economic Affairs, and for two years had a regular column in National Post Business, a popular Canadian magazine of business affairs.
In the 2004-05 academic year, Chris Ragan served as the Special Advisor to the Governor of the Bank of Canada, in Ottawa. Ragan has also consulted with the Canadian Department of Finance. He has taught several specialized economics courses—including to senior staff at the Bank of Canada and a group of hydroelectric engineers from China. Ragan also teaches microeconomics regularly for McKinsey & Company, a leading international management consulting firm.
Ragan received his B.A. (Honours) in economics in 1984 from the University of Victoria and his Master of Arts degree in economics from Queen’s University in 1985. He then moved to Cambridge, MA where he completed his Ph.D. in economics at M.I.T. in 1989.