Christopher Ragan

Christopher Ragan is an associate professor and director of McGill University’s Max Bell School of Public Policy. Chris was the chair of Canada’s Ecofiscal Commission, which launched in November 2014 with a five-year horizon to identify policy options to improve environmental and economic performance in Canada. He was also a member of the federal finance minister’s Advisory Council on Economic Growth, which operated from early 2016 to mid-2019. During 2010-12 he was the president of the Ottawa Economics Association. From 2010-13, Chris held the David Dodge Chair in Monetary Policy at the C.D. Howe Institute, and for many years was a member of the institute’s Monetary Policy Council. In 2009-10, he served as the Clifford Clark Visiting Economist at Finance Canada; in 2004-05 he served as special adviser to the governor of the Bank of Canada. His published research focuses mostly on the conduct of macroeconomic policy. Chris received his BA (Honours) in economics in 1984 from the University of Victoria and his MA in economics from Queen’s University in 1985. He completed his PhD in economics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1989.