John Helliwell
Professor Emeritus, Vancouver School of Economics, The University of British Columbia (Canada)
Dr. Helliwell is Senior Fellow of the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research and co-director (with George Akerlof) of CIFAR’s program on “Social Interactions, Identity and Well-Being”. He is also Professor Emeritus of Economics at the University of British Columbia, a member of the National Statistics Council, and a Research Associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research. He was previously visiting special advisor at the Bank of Canada in 2003-04, visiting research fellow of Merton College, Oxford, in 2003, of St. Catherine’s College, Oxford, in 2001, and Mackenzie King Visiting Professor of Canadian Studies at Harvard in 1991-94. Over the years, he has made distinguished contributions to quantitative macroeconomics, to energy economics, to comparative macroeconomics, and to international trade. He has published books on The Contribution of Human and Social Capital to Sustained Economic Growth and Well-Being (OECD and HRDC, 2001), Globalization and Well-Being (UBC Press, 2002), The Science of Well-Being (OUP, 2005), and, is one of the editors of The World Happiness Report.