Stéphanie Lluis is a professor of economics at the University of Waterloo. She completed her PhD from the University of Montreal while also visiting the University of British Columbia in Vancouver. Since 2016, she has been the Director of the SouthWestern Ontario Research Data Center, which  serves researchers at the University of Waterloo, Wilfrid Laurier University and the University of Guelph. Her areas of specialization are labour economics and personnel economics. Her latest research focuses on the impact of changes to the Canadian employment insurance program on re-employment outcomes, skill changes, and spousal labour supply adjustments.

Mikal Skuterud a professor of economics at the University of Waterloo and is affiliated with the Canadian Labour Economics Forum (CLEF) and the Institute of Labor Economics (IZA). He received his Master’s degree in Economics from the University of British Columbia and his PhD in Economics from McMaster University. His research interests include: the labour market integration of immigrants, labour market policies that influence hours of work, and the economics of trade unions. His work has appeared in the American Economic Review, the Journal of Labor Economics, and the Canadian Journal of Economics and has received national media coverage in the New York Times and the Globe and Mail.

Colin Busby is a research director at the IRPP. Prior to this, he was the associate director of research at the C.D. Howe Institute. He has also worked at Industry Canada and the United Nations Industrial Development Organization. While he writes broadly on economic issues, his emphasis is on fiscal and social policy.