Michael Augustus Walker (born 1945, in

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) is a Canadian economist. He is best known as the founder of the Fraser Institute. He is a journalist, broadcaster and consultant.

Biography

Walker earned a BA from St. Francis Xavier University, and went on to earn a Ph.D. from the University of Western Ontario. He worked at the

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and the Department of Finance Canada. He then taught at the University of Western Ontario and Carleton University. Under his leadership, a series of conferences were started in the mid-1980s to measure economic freedom and rank countries accordingly. A prominent spokesman in the media for free market causes, he founded the Fraser Institute in 1974. He was its Executive Director until 2005, and remains a Senior Fellow. He considers himself a

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. In 2010 he received an honorary doctorate degree from Universidad Francisco Marroquín.Honorary Doctoral Degrees
at Universidad Francisco Marroquín

References

External links

Michael Walker: Profile from the Fraser Institute

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