Walter Erwin Diewert (born 1941) is a Canadian economist. He was born in

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. He completed a B.A. degree in 1963, and an M.A. in mathematics in 1964, both at the University of British Columbia. He completed a Ph.D. at the

University of California at Berkeley The University of California, Berkeley (UC Berkeley, Berkeley, Cal, or California) is a public land-grant research university in Berkeley, California. Established in 1868 as the University of California, it is the state's first land-grant univ ...

in 1968. He is a professor of economics at the

University of British Columbia The University of British Columbia (UBC) is a public university, public research university with campuses near Vancouver and in Kelowna, British Columbia. Established in 1908, it is British Columbia's oldest university. The university ranks a ...

, where he has been a member of the faculty since 1970, and also has a joint appointment at the

University of New South Wales The University of New South Wales (UNSW), also known as UNSW Sydney, is a public research university based in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. It is one of the founding members of Group of Eight, a coalition of Australian research-intensive ...

. He is also a Vice President of the

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. He is one of the world's leading economists dealing with complex empirical issues related to the measurement of price indexes and productivity. He coauthored a reference book on the mathematics of index numbers. In a major contribution in 2012, his analysis suggested that Statistics Canada has significantly understated the growth of productivity in Canada. In 2005, he received the Shiskin Memorial Award for Economic Statistics for his contributions to index number theory. In 2008, he was honored as a Distinguished Fellow of the

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