Mike Moffatt


Michael Patrick Moffatt is a Canadian economist and professor of international trade. He served as director of policy and research at Canada 2020, a progressive Canadian think-tank. He is also an assistant professor at the Richard Ivey School of Business.

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 National Post. He also is an author for The Globe and Mail. As of November 15, 2013, Moffatt is a research fellow at the prestigious Lawrence National Centre for Policy and Management at Western University's Ivey School of Business.