DR. MICHAEL A. WALKER
Executive Director, The Fraser Institute
Michael Walker is an economist, journalist, broadcaster, consultant, university lecturer and public speaker.
As an economist, he has authored or edited 50 books. His articles on technical economic subjects have appeared in professional journals in Canada, the United States and Europe, including the Canadian Journal of Economics, the American Economic Review, The Journal of Finance, the Canadian Tax Journal, Health Management Quarterly and Health Affairs.
As a journalist, he has written some 700 articles which have appeared in some 60 newspapers, including TheGlobe and Mail, The Wall Street Journal, The Vancouver Sun, The Chicago Tribune, Reader's Digest, The Detroit News and The Western Star — the latter being the newspaper of his birthplace, Corner Brook, Newfoundland. He has been a regular columnist in the Vancouver Province, The Toronto Sun, and The Ottawa Citizen.
As a broadcaster, Michael has written and delivered roughly 2,000 radio broadcasts on economic topics and appeared on radio and television programs in Canada, the United States and Latin America.
As a consultant, Michael provides advice to private groups and governments in Canada, the U.S., Argentina, Australia, Bermuda, Brazil, Chile, Germany, Hong Kong, Jamaica, New Zealand, Mexico, Panama, Peru, Sweden, and Venezuela.
Michael Walker has lectured to more than 2000 audiences at universities and other venues on five continents.
Since 1974 Michael Walker has directed the activities of the Fraser Institute, a leading think-tank based in Vancouver, BC. Before that he taught at the University of Western Ontario and Carleton and was employed at the Bank of Canada and the Federal Department of Finance. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Western Ontario and his B.A. from St. Francis Xavier University.
Michael Walker is a director of a number of firms and other enterprises including Mancal Corporation and The Milton and Rose D. Friedman Foundation. He is Chairman of The Pacific Academy for Advanced Studies and is on the Financial Post Board of Economists. In 1992 he was awarded the Colin M. Brown Freedom Medal and Award by the National Citizens’ Coalition. In 2003 he received an honorary Doctor of Laws degree (LL.D.) from The University of Western Ontario. In 2004 he received The Thomas Jefferson Award from the Association of Private Enterprise Education.
He is married and has two children.