Bio
Michelle Alexopoulos is a Professor of Economics at the University of Toronto with a cross appointment to the Faculty of Information. Dr. Alexopoulos completed an Honours Bachelor of Science degree from the University of Toronto specializing in economics and mathematics, and holds MA and Ph.D. degrees in economics from Northwestern University. Her research primarily focuses on business cycles, monetary policy, technical change, economic uncertainty, labour markets and productivity. Her work, supported by public and private grants, has been published in top tier economics journals, and has been presented at numerous Central Banks, international conferences, academic departments, industry think tanks, and the National Academy of Sciences. She is also a qualified expert witness in the areas of technical change, macroeconomics and applied econometrics.
Dr. Alexopoulos is currently an Executive of the Canadian Economics Association, co-chair of the Canadian Economics Diversity Committee, a member of the C.D. Howe Business Cycle Council, and a Canadian Productivity Partnership collaborator. Additionally, she is a Faculty Affiliate at the Schwartz Reisman Institute for Technology and Society, and the Data Sciences Institute at the University of Toronto. She has recently completed her term as the President of the Canadian Economics Association and has been a Bank of Canada Fellow since 2019.
In February 2025, the Bank of Canada announced the appointment of Alexopoulos as an external Deputy Governor for a two-year term starting March 17, 2025.