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Place of Birth: Wakaw, Saskatchewan, Canada
About Tom Courchene
- Thomas Joseph "Tom" Courchene, (born 16 September 1940) is a Canadian economist and professor. Born in Wakaw, Saskatchewan, in 1940, he received an Honours Bachelor of Arts from the University of Saskatchewan in 1962.
- He received his Ph.D.
- from Princeton University in 1967.
- In 1969, he received a Post-doctoral Fellow from the University of Chicago.
- He started teaching as a lecturer in economics at the University of Western Ontario in 1965.
- In 1970, he became a Professor of Economics and he taught there until 1988.
- From 1988 to 1992, he was the Director of the School of Policy Studies at Queen's University.
- Currently, he is a Professor of Economic and Financial Policy at Queen's University and is a Senior Scholar at the Institute for Research on Public Policy in Montreal. From 1988 to 1991, he was a member of the Economic Council of Canada.
- From 1980 to 1999, he was a Senior Fellow of the C.D.
- Howe Institute. In 1998, he was made an Officer of the Order of Canada.
- In 1981, he was made a Fellow of Royal Society of Canada. Courchene has written a number of books and more than 250 articles on Canadian monetary, health, and social policy.
- His 1994 book, Social Canada in the Millennium, and his 2018 book, ''Indigenous Nationals, Canadian Citizens: From First Contact to Canada 150 and Beyond won the Donner Prize for excellence in writing of Canadian public policy.
- He also won the Doug Purvis Memorial Prize in 1995, for his written contribution to Canadian economic policy. He ran unsuccessfully as a Progressive Conservative candidate in the riding of London East in London, Ontario in the 1979 federal election.
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