Michael Patrick Moffatt (born March 14, 1977) is a Canadian economist 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 a constituent unit of the University of Western Ontario, located in London, Ontario, Canada. Ivey offers full-time undergraduate (HBA), MBA, MSc, MFE and PhD programs and also maintains two teaching facilities in Toronto ...

. Mike's family is from Whalen Corners in Lucan Biddulph, though Mike grew up in London, Ontario, where he attended elementary and highschool with fellow urbanist Jason Slaughter of Not Just Bikes.

Education and career

Moffatt has a combined honours B.A. in economics and political science from the University of Western Ontario and a M.A. economics degree from the University of Rochester. 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 CBC Radio and the ''

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''. He also is an author for

The Globe and Mail ''The Globe and Mail'' is a Canadian newspaper printed in five cities in western and central Canada. With a weekly readership of approximately 2 million in 2015, it is Canada's most widely read newspaper on weekdays and Saturdays, although it ...

. 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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