Michael Patrick Moffatt (born March 14, 1977) is a

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and professor of Business, Economics, and Public Policy. He served as director of policy and research at Canada 2020, a progressive Canadian think-tank. He is also an assistant professor at

Ivey Business School Ivey Business School is the main business school of Western University, located in London, Ontario, Canada. It offers full-time undergraduate and graduate programs in London, Ontario and maintains a Toronto facility for its EMBA program and two ...

. Mike's family is from Whalen Corners in

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, though Mike grew up in

London, Ontario London is a city in southwestern Ontario, Canada, along the Quebec City–Windsor Corridor. The city had a population of 422,324 according to the 2021 Canadian census. London is at the confluence of the Thames River (Ontario), Thames River and N ...

, where he attended elementary and highschool with fellow urbanist Jason Slaughter of

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Education and career

Moffatt has a combined honours B.A. in economics and political science from the

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and a M.A. economics degree from the

University of Rochester The University of Rochester is a private university, private research university in Rochester, New York, United States. It was founded in 1850 and moved into its current campus, next to the Genesee River in 1930. With approximately 30,000 full ...

. He graduated from the Ph.D. program for business administration at the Richard Ivey School of Business in 2012. He is an assistant professor of business, economics and public policy at Ivey. In 2018, Moffatt was appointed director of policy and research at the progressive think-tank Canada 2020. He was a "guide" for the Economics topic at About.com and provided weekly articles on economics topics, with a focus towards students. Moffatt is a business and economy consultant and appeared

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and the ''

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''. He also is an author for

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. As of November 15, 2013, Moffatt is a research fellow at the Lawrence National Centre for Policy and Management at Western University's Ivey School of Business.

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