William B.P. Robson Senior Vice-President and Director of Research

William B.P. Robson has a B.A. from the University of Toronto and an M.A. from the Norman Paterson School of International Affairs at Carleton University.

Mr. Robson specializes in Canadian fiscal and monetary policy. He has written extensively on government budgets, pension, and health-care financing, and on inflation and currency issues. His 1994 book, The Great Canadian Disinflation, co-authored with David Laidler, won the Canadian Economics Association's Doug Purvis Memorial Prize for excellence in writing on Canadian economic policy, and his 2001 Commentary, Will the Baby Boomers Bust the Health Budget? Demographic Changes and Health-Care Financing Reform won the Policy Research Secretariat's Outstanding Research Contribution Award. Mr. Robson chairs the C.D. Howe Institute’s Monetary Policy Council. He is a familiar commentator on economic issues in the media.

Mr. Robson also serves as Canadian Liaison Officer to the British North American Committee. He is President of the Canadian Ditchley Foundation, a member of the Province of Ontario’s Postsecondary Education Quality Assessment Board, and serves as advisor to or director of several education-related and public affairs organizations. He lectured on public finance and public policy at the University of Toronto from 2000 to 2003. Before joining the C.D. Howe Institute in 1988, he held positions as an economist with Wood Gundy Inc. and the federal Department of Energy, Mines and Resources.