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David Longworth | Preparing for Pandemics. | 2024-06-12 | CACOR Live
June 12 @ 13:30 - 16:00 EDT
Title: Preparing for Pandemics.
Speaker: Dr. David Longworth
Time: Jun 12, 2024 13:30 Eastern Time (US and Canada)
David Longworth is a retired economist. He had a 36-year career at the Bank of Canada. From 2003 until 2010, he was a Deputy Governor there—one of two responsible for issues related to financial stability and financial markets. From 2005 to 2010, he was a member of the Committee on the Global Financial System and the Markets Committee, which met at the Bank for International Settlements.
After his retirement from the Bank, he was an Adjunct Research Professor at Carleton University (2010 to 2020) and a Term Adjunct Professor at the Department of Economics at Queen’s University (2011 to 2021).
David Longworth received a BSc in Mathematical Statistics in 1973 and an MA in Economics in 1974, both from the University of Alberta. He holds a PhD in Economics from MIT in 1979. He has published in leading economic and finance journals, including the Journal of Finance.
His 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.