David Longworth on Preparing for Pandemics.

Description: Our speaker’s major policy research interests are credit cycles, financial regulation, monetary policy, and preventing future pandemics. He is a co-author with Frank Milne of Preparing for Pandemics: Lessons from the Global Financial Crisis and COVID-19.  He is a Research Fellow of the C.D. Howe Institute.

Biography: Dr. David Longworth is a retired economist with a BSc in Mathematical Statistics (1973) & an MA in Economics (1974), both from U of Alberta, & a PhD in Economics from MIT (1979). He has published in leading economic & finance journals, including the Journal of Finance. He had a 36-year career at the Bank of Canada. From 2003-10, he was a Deputy Governor there, responsible for issues related to financial stability & financial markets. From 2005-10, he was a member of the Committee on the Global Financial System & the Markets Committee, which met at the Bank for International Settlements. After retirement, he was an Adjunct Research Professor at Carleton University (2010-20) & a Term Adjunct Professor at the Department of Economics at Queen’s University (2011-21).

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