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Adriana Kugler People

When she’s not studying economic policy, she helps shape it 

Adriana Kugler is an award-winning economics professor at Georgetown University – but she is often not there. Her academic career has been interrupted by appointments from the White House. In her current role, she is serving as a governor for the U.S. Federal Reserve.

Eric-Girard People

A minister for both the economy and English-speaking Quebecers

As Quebec’s finance minister, Eric Girard, BCom’89, already had a lot on his plate. Now, he has an additional responsibility – he’ll be trying to improve relations between his Coalition Avenir Québec government and the province’s anglophone community.

Person holding a receipt Webcasts

Why does everything cost so much?

From droughts in California to Covid lockdowns in China, events occurring thousands of kilometres away are having a profound impact on household economies, hindering our ability to put healthy food on our tables and to stock our wardrobes and medicine cabinets.

Worker, business, and the market Webcasts

The Future of our Cities

In the final of a three-part webcast series exploring our shifting world, listen in as leading McGill University thinkers and practitioners weigh in on the future of our cities.

Worker, business, and the market Webcasts

The Future of the Economy and Personal Wealth

Tune in as our experts discuss the future of the economy and personal wealth in the wake of disruptions caused by COVID-19.

Worker, business, and the market Webcasts

The Future of Work

Tune in as our experts discuss the future of work in the wake of disruptions caused by COVID-19.

Society

A helping hand for those perplexed by personal finance

If you are like many Canadians, you’re wrestling with debt, and personal finance is only a little less intimidating than quantum physics. An online course offered by top teachers from the Desautels Faculty of Management might help. And it’s free.

Christopher Ragan Discovery

Informing the debate

Associate professor of economics Christopher Ragan reflects on the final report of Canada’s Ecofiscal Commission and its six-year goal to bring sober analysis to politically charged topics like carbon pricing. “We knew we were entering into a very polarized debate.”

People

Meet the blockchain lawyer

It’s hard to believe that when she crossed the McGill stage at Convocation in May 2016, blockchain was barely on Kendra Alexia Hefti’s radar. Since then she has helped build Deloitte Canada’s blockchain practice, and recently took on a global blockchain role. She now leads Deloitte’s tax technology practice in Dubai. Her initiation to “blockchain” […]

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