HOME

TheInfoList



OR:

David Allison Dodge (born June 8, 1943) is a Canadian
economist An economist is a professional and practitioner in the social sciences, social science discipline of economics. The individual may also study, develop, and apply theories and concepts from economics and write about economic policy. Within this ...
. He served as Governor of the Bank of Canada from 2001 to 2008.


Early life

Dodge was born in Toronto, Ontario, Canada in 1943. He attended
Ridley College Ridley College (also known as RC, Ridley) is a private school, private boarding school, boarding and day university-preparatory school located in St. Catharines, Ontario, Canada, 20 miles (32 km) from Niagara Falls. The school confers the On ...
, a private boarding school in
St. Catharines St. Catharines is the largest city in Canada's Niagara Region and the sixth largest urban area in the province of Ontario. As of 2016, it has an area of , 136,803 residents, and a metropolitan population of 406,074. It lies in Southern Ontari ...
(and second alumnus to become Bank Governor), and graduated from Queen's University with an honours degree in economics. He received his Ph.D in economics from Princeton University in 1972 after completing a doctoral dissertation titled "The structure of earnings of Canadian accountants, engineers and scientists and the implications for returns to investment in university education."


Career

He was Assistant Professor of Economics at Queen's University, Associate Professor of Canadian Studies and International Economics at the School of Advanced International Studies at Johns Hopkins University, Senior Fellow in the Faculty of Commerce at the University of British Columbia, and Visiting Professor in the Department of Economics at Simon Fraser University. He has also served as Director of the International Economics Program of the Institute for Research on Public Policy.


Canadian Politics

Dodge served in the senior ranks of the Canadian federal government from 1992 to 2001, a month before his appointment as the Bank of Canada Governor.


Deputy Minister of Finance

He was appointed Deputy
Minister of Finance A finance minister is an executive or cabinet position in charge of one or more of government finances, economic policy and financial regulation. A finance minister's portfolio has a large variety of names around the world, such as "treasury", ...
in 1992. In the 1996 book ''Double Vision'',
Edward Greenspon Edward Greenspon (born March 26, 1957) is a Canadian journalist who was at Bloomberg News in January 2014 as Editor-at-Large for Canada after four years as vice president of strategic investments for Star Media Group, a division of Torstar Corp. a ...
and Anthony Wilson-Smith describe in detail the role which Dodge played in reviving Canada's economy by working closely with Finance Minister Paul Martin to eliminate the federal budget's deficit spending.


Deputy Minister of Health

In 1998, Dodge was appointed the Deputy Minister of Health. While Deputy, Dodge's role in founding the Winnipeg National Microbiology Laboratory was commended as critically important by laboratory director-general Frank Plummer.


Bank of Canada

In 2001, Dodge was appointed the Governor of the Bank of Canada. His appointment was controversial as the Bank of Canada traditionally promotes from within, helping to avoid the perception of politicizing of the central bank. During Dodge's term, annual inflation stayed close to the Bank of Canada's target of 2 percent, and the Canadian economy avoided any recessions. In 2008, Dodge retired from the Bank of Canada, and was replaced by Mark Carney. Following his exit from the Bank, Dodge joined the Canadian law firm
Bennett Jones Bennett Jones LLP is a law firm based in Canada. Firm Bennett Jones is a Canadian business law firm with 400 lawyers and business advisors. The firm has five offices in Canada ( Calgary, Toronto, Edmonton, Ottawa and Vancouver), and on ...
as a senior advisor.


Chancellor of Queen's University

Dodge was elected as the 13th chancellor of Queen's University on May 2, 2008, succeeding A. Charles Baillie. The appointment was effective July 1, 2008, though Dodge was only officially installed later that year, on October 30. As his first three-year term drew to a close, Dodge's re-appointment was unanimously endorsed by the Queen's University Council, and Dodge served until his retirement at the end of his second-term on June 30, 2014. He was subsequently appointed chancellor emeritus by the University Council, an honorary title he still holds today. Dodge was elected to the Royal Society of Canada in October, 2009. He was made an Officer of the Order of Canada in 2007.


References


Further reading

* ''Double Vision: The Inside Story of the Liberals in Power'', by
Edward Greenspon Edward Greenspon (born March 26, 1957) is a Canadian journalist who was at Bloomberg News in January 2014 as Editor-at-Large for Canada after four years as vice president of strategic investments for Star Media Group, a division of Torstar Corp. a ...
and Anthony Wilson-Smith, Toronto 1996, Doubleday Canada publishers, .


External links


Bank of Canada – Biography of David A. Dodge
{{DEFAULTSORT:Dodge, David A. 1943 births Living people Canadian economists Chancellors of Queen's University at Kingston Fellows of the Royal Society of Canada Governors of the Bank of Canada Johns Hopkins University faculty Officers of the Order of Canada People from Toronto Princeton University alumni Queen's University at Kingston alumni Queen's University at Kingston faculty Ridley College alumni Simon Fraser University faculty