Andrew Jackson
Chief Economist; National Director, Canadian Labour Congress.
Last Contribution:
Ensuring Canada's Economic Recovery
Contributor Biography
Mr. Jackson is Chief Economist and National Director of Social and Economic Policy with the Canadian Labour Congress (CLC), where he has worked since 1989. He is also a Research Professor in the Institute of Political Economy at Carleton University, a Research Associate with the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives, and a Fellow with the School of Policy Studies at Queen’s University. During a leave of absence from the CLC in 2000-2002, he was Director of Research with the Canadian Council on Social Development.
His areas of interest include: the labour market and the quality of jobs, income distribution and poverty, macro-economic policy, social policy, and the impacts of globalization on workers. He has written numerous articles for popular and academic publications, and is the author of Work and Labour in Canada: Critical Issues, published by Canadian Scholars Press (2005).
He was educated at the London School of Economics (BSc and MSc Econ.) and at the University of British Columbia. Prior to joining the CLC, he worked for the then-leader of the New Democratic Party, Ed Broadbent, and for the Canadian Labour and Business Centre.
