About the Bank

Gregor W. Smith is currently Douglas D. Purvis Professor of Economics and Associate Department Head at Queen's University. From 1986 to 1992, he was an assistant professor at Queen's University; he became associate professor in 1992 and was promoted to full professor in 1995. He was also a visiting associate professor at Princeton University in 1993-94, a visiting professor at the University of Toronto in 2000-01, and a visiting scholar at the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta in 2003.

Professor Smith has published widely in the areas of empirical macroeconomics, open-economy macroeconomics, and economic history. He is president of the Canadian Economics Association, a research associate at the Institute for Policy Analysis of the University of Toronto, and sits on the advisory board of the John Deutsch Institute for the Study of Economic Policy. He is a former co-editor of the Journal of International Economics and of the Canadian Journal of Economics.

Professor Smith has received a number of awards and grants, including many research grants from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, the Polanyi Prize in Economics (Government of Ontario), a Rhodes Scholarship from Oxford University, the Adam Smith Medallion in Economics (University of St. Andrews), and a Fulbright Fellowship.

Professor Smith received a BA in History from Queen's University (1980), an MA with Honours in Economics from the University of St. Andrews (1982), an M.Phil. in Economics from Oxford University (1984), and a D.Phil. in Economics from Oxford University (1986).

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