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Alberto Abadie, Harvard University

Alberto Abadie is Assistant Professor of Public Policy at the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard.

His main research areas are econometrics, labor economics, and public finance. His current research develops econometric methodology to evaluate the effects of public programs. He is also interested in unemployment and income distribution issues.

Gary Burtless, Institut Brookings

Gary Burtless holds the John C. and Nancy D. Whitehead Chair in Economic Studies at the Brookings Institution in Washington, D.C. He does research on issues associated with public finance, aging, saving, labor markets, income distribution, social insurance, and the behavioral effects of government tax and transfer policy.

He is coauthor of Globaphobia: Confronting Fears about Open Trade (1998), Five Years After: The Long Term Effects of Welfare-to-Work Programs (1995), Growth with Equity: Economic Policymaking for the Next Century (1993), and Can America Afford to Grow Old? Paying for Social Security (1989), and editor and contributor to Aging Societies: The Global Dimension (1998), Does Money Matter? The Effect of School Resources on Student Achievement and Adult Success (1996), A Future of Lousy Jobs? The Changing Structure of U.S. Wages (1990), Work, Health and Income Among the Elderly (1987) and Retirement and Economic Behavior (1984). He is also the author of numerous scholarly and popular articles on the economic effects of Social Security, public welfare, unemployment insurance, and taxes. His recent research has focused on sources of growing wage and income inequality in the United States, the influence of international trade on income inequality, the job market prospects of public aid recipients, reform of social insurance in developing countries and formerly socialist economies, and the implications of privatizing the American social security system.

Burtless graduated from Yale College in 1972 and earned a Ph.D. in economics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1977. Before coming to Brookings in 1981, he served as an economist in the policy and evaluation offices of the Secretary of Labor and the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare. In 1993 he was Visiting Professor of Public Affairs at the University of Maryland, College Park.

Steve Gribble, Statistics Canada

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Peter Kuhn, University of California

Peter Kuhn is Professor of Economics at the University of California, Santa Barbara. He is also the co-editor of Labour Economics, an international labour economics journal.

His research interests encompasses labour economics, trade unions, discrimination, immigration, displaced workers, unemployment, employment contracts, comparative labour markets, and the effects of information technology on labour markets.

Avrim Lazar, ADM Strategic Policy

In July 1998, Avrim Lazar was appointed Assistant Deputy Minister, Strategic Policy, Human Resources Development Canada.

From 1995 to 1998, Mr. Lazar served as Assistant Deputy Minister, Policy and Communications, Environment Canada.

Mr. Lazar began his public service career in 1978 as a Senior Analyst with the Department of Justice. He remained with that Department as Chief, Policy Research, Civil Law and Social Matters (1981-82) and then as Director, Programme Evaluation (1982-85). In 1985, he was appointed Director General, Review Directorate for the Public Service Commission (PSC) of Canada. He joined Agriculture Canada in 1991 as Director General, Bureau of Environmental Sustainability, and later became Director General, Policy Coordination and Strategic Directions, Policy Branch (1992-94). In 1994, Mr. Lazar was appointed Director General, Biodiversity Directorate and Conservation Policy and Planning, Environment Conservation Service, Environment Canada.

From 1975 to 1978, he worked as a private consultant in social policy and research methods with various government departments and taught high school in Vancouver and Zambia from 1969 to 1973. Over the years, Mr. Lazar has given many courses in the graduate studies program at the University of Ottawa and Carleton University.

Mr. Lazar has the following degrees: a bachelor of science degree (1968) from McGill University, a Bachelor of Education degree (1970) and a Doctorate degree in Psychopedagogy (1976) from the University of Ottawa.

Mr. Lazar is married with four children.

Barry Leighton, Audit Principal, Office of the Auditor General of Canada

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Henno Moenting, Former Audit Principal, Office of the Auditor General of Canada

Henno is a private consultant who recently retired from the Office of the Auditor General of Canada. As the Principal, Results Measurement Audit, in that Office, he provided functional leadership for the Office's audit work relating to results measurement and reporting.

In addition to number of audit responsibilities during more than 12 years with the Office of the Auditor General, Henno's experience in the federal public service included 12 years in policy analysis, planning, evaluation and performance measurement in line departments and central agencies. Between 1981 and 1984, he headed up the strategic planning and program evaluation practice of a national economic and management consulting firm.

Henno was educated in Australia, where he received an Honours degree in Economics from the University of Sydney. Before joining the Canadian federal public service in 1969, Henno worked in the private sector for a number of years in Australia and England.

Walter Nicholson, Amherst College

Walter Nicholson is a professor of economics at Amherst College and a senior fellow at Mathematica Policy Research.

He has been extensively involved in the design and analysis of many experimental and non-experimental evaluations of welfare and labour market policies. He has also written on a variety of issues in unemployment insurance policy and on policies intended to aid workers affected by international trade.

Lars Osberg, Dalhousie University

Lars Osberg is Professor of Economics at Dalhousie University. He is a member of the Executive Council of the International Association for research in Income and Wealth. In 1999-2000, he was the President of the Canadian Economics Association.

Current research work is in the measurement and determinants of social exclusion and poverty, technical change, employment and social policy, income and wealth distribution, and the measurement of economic well-being.

Craig Riddell, University of British Columbia

Craig Riddell is Professor of Economics at the University of British Columbia. He is a member of the Board of Directors of the Canadian Employment Research Forum (CERF) and of the Centre for the Study of Living Standards (CSLS) and an Associate of the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research. He was President of the Canadian Economics Association (CEA) in 1998-1999.

His interests include the fields of labour, industrial relations, public policy, education and training, evaluation of social programs and unemployment and the dynamics of labour markets.

Jeff Smith, University of Maryland

Dr. Jeff Smith is Associate Professor at the University of Maryland and a Faculty research fellow at the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER). Until June 2001, he was Associate Professor of Economics and CIBC Chair in Human Capital and Productivity at the University of Western Ontario.

His teaching fields include labour, applied econometrics and industrial organization. His research interests are the evaluation of social programs and investment in human capital.

Arthur Sweetman, Queen's University

Arthur Sweetman is an economist and an Assistant Professor in the School of Policy Studies at Queen's University.

Sweetman primarily studies economic issues related to labour markets and health policy, and is interested in applied microeconometrics. Recent research includes government programs for the disabled. unemployment insurance (employment insurance) and the economics of unions, displaced workers, education) immigration and microfinance.

He is a senior researcher with the Centre for Research on Immigration and Integration in the Metropolis (RIIM), a Social Sciences and Humanities Council of Canada (SSHCC), and Citizenship and Immigration Canada lead Centre of Excellence for the study of immigration. He is also an academic member of the Western Research Network on Education and Training (WRNET), a SSHRC sponsored initiative; and is a Research Associate with the Canadian International Labour Network (CILN), a SSHRC Strategic Research Network.