(June 1 – 16:55) – Professor Angela Redish of the University of British Columbia has been appointed to the position of Special Adviser in the Bank of Canada for a one-year term beginning in August 2000.
This position was created to bring additional views on monetary policy from outside the bank and to increase the number of university and private sector economists with first-hand knowledge of the institution and its monetary policy role. Redish is the third visiting economist appointed to the position
Professor Redish is a specialist in the economic history of money in Western economies. She has written numerous articles on Canadian monetary history as well as a book, to be published shortly, on the use of silver and gold in monetary regimes, and the evolution of the gold standard in the West.
Redish graduated with a BA (Hons.) Economics from Wilfrid Laurier in 1974, and an MA from the University of Western Ontario in 1975. After working for two years as a CUSO volunteer in Papua New Guinea she returned to complete her PhD at Western in 1981. She has taught at the University of British Columbia since 1981 and is currently director of graduate studies in the Department of Economics.
-IE Staff