Bill Robson is a Fellow-in-Residence at the C.D. Howe Institute and the first to hold the title of President Emeritus for Canada’s most influential think tank.
In 2026, he established the William Robson Chair in Public Sector Governance and Accountability and is the first to hold the title.
From July 2006 to February 2026, Mr. Robson served as President and CEO of the C.D. Howe Institute. Prior to this, he held senior positions at the Institute, including as Senior Vice President, and Director of Research.
He has written more than 280 monographs, articles, chapters and books on such subjects as government budgets, pensions, healthcare financing, inflation and currency issues. His work has won awards from the Policy Research Secretariat, the Canadian Economics Association, and the Donner Canadian Foundation.
A Senior Fellow at Massey College, Mr. Robson holds an ICD.D designation from the Institute of Corporate Directors. He is a member of the Panel of Senior Advisors to the Auditor General of Ontario and the ifo World Economic Survey expert group, and a regular commentator on BNN Bloomberg.
Mr. Robson taught undergraduate public finance and public policy at the University of Toronto from 2000 to 2003, and a Master’s level course in public finance at the University of Toronto’s Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy from 2014 to 2019.