About the Author

Chris Ragan received his B.A. in economics from the University of
Victoria, his M.A. from Queen’s University, and his Ph.D. from the Mas-
sachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge, Massachusetts, in 1990.
He then joined the Department of Economics at McGill University in
Montreal, where he has taught graduate courses in macroeconomics and
international finance and undergraduate courses in macroeconomic
theory and policy, current economic issues, and financial crises. Over the
years he has taught principles of economics (micro and macro) to
thousands of students at McGill and maintains a reputation on campus as
being “super-excited” about economics. In 2007, Chris Ragan was
awarded the Noel Fieldhouse Teaching Award from McGill for teaching
excellence.

In 2017, he was appointed as the inaugural Director of McGill’s Max Bell
School of Public Policy. In that capacity, he will be designing a new
Master of Public Policy (MPP) program as well as the many other
research and outreach elements included in leading policy schools.