Dr. Rob Gillezeau
Assistant Professor of Economic Analysis and Policy
University of Toronto
University of Toronto
I am an Assistant Professor of Economic Analysis and Policy at the University of Toronto. My primary appointments are in the the Department of Management at UTSC and the Rotman School of Management with cross-appointments to the Department of Economics and the Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy I am a J-PAL invited researcher, an affiliated scholar at the Stone Center on Socio-economic Inequality and the People's History Lab, and an adjunct assistant professor in the Department of Economics at the University of Victoria.
Prior to my academic appointment, I served as the Chief Economist in the Office of the Leader of the Official Opposition from 2011 until 2015 in Ottawa, Ontario and as the senior aide to the Minister of Finance and Deputy Premier of British Columbia in Victoria, British Columbia from 2017 to 2019. I received my Ph.D. from the Department of Economics at the University of Michigan in 2015.
My research focuses primarily on i) the economic history of the Indigenous peoples of North America from the early colonial period through to the present and ii) the intersection of race, protest, and state institutions. I am a co-chair of the Canadian Economics Association's Indigenous Economics Study Group (IESG).
Prior to my academic appointment, I served as the Chief Economist in the Office of the Leader of the Official Opposition from 2011 until 2015 in Ottawa, Ontario and as the senior aide to the Minister of Finance and Deputy Premier of British Columbia in Victoria, British Columbia from 2017 to 2019. I received my Ph.D. from the Department of Economics at the University of Michigan in 2015.
My research focuses primarily on i) the economic history of the Indigenous peoples of North America from the early colonial period through to the present and ii) the intersection of race, protest, and state institutions. I am a co-chair of the Canadian Economics Association's Indigenous Economics Study Group (IESG).