Marcel Boyer
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Marcel Boyer is a Canadian economist and educator. He is Bell Canada Chair in Industrial Economy[1] and Professor of Economy at l'Université de Montréal.
He is a C.D. Howe Institute Scholar in Economic Policy, Fellow of CIREQ and CIRANO, a Quebec-based interuniversity centre for research, liaison, and knowledge transfer on the analysis of organizations [2]. He is a member of the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC/CRSH), was President of the Canadian Education Association (1990-91) and the La Société canadienne de science économique (SCSE 1995-96).
He was a recipient of the Alexander Henderson Award from Carnegie Mellon University (1971), where he obtained his Ph.D., the Marcel Dagenais Award (SCSE 1985) and the Marcel Vincent Award from l'association canadienne-francaise pour l'avancement des sciences (ACFAS 2002). Elected member of the Royal Society of Canada (Canadian Academy of Sciences, Arts and Letters) in 1992, he was also presented with an award from the University of Alberta Endowment Fund for the Future as a Distinguished Visitor to the University (1987).
He was a distinguished Guest Professor at Wuhan University of Technology in China (1995), Fellow of the International Journal of Industrial Organization (1997), and Fellow of the World Confederation of Productivity Science (2001).
Boyer was a general President-Director of CIRANO from March 1998 to December 2002 (vice-president 1993-1998), Member of the Board of Management of the Bell University Laboratories 1998-2002 [3], the Financial Mathematics Institute of Montreal (1998-2002), the National Council of Statistics Canada 1992-1998, and Board of Directors of the National Bureau of Economic Research 1992-2000.
From 1993 to 2000 he also held the Jarislowsky/NSERC/SSHRC Chair in Technology and International Competitiveness at l'École Polytechnique de Montréal [4].
He is the author of more than 160 scientific articles, reports and monographs, and has given talks at more than 220 scientific conferences and seminars. His research activities focus around the following topics: Industrial Economics, the Economics of Uncertainty, Organizations and Copyright. His son Martin Boyer is a Professor of Finance at HEC Montreal.
