Michael Walker

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As an economist, he has authored or edited 40 books on economic topics.  His articles on technical economic subjects have appeared in professional journals in Canada, the United States and Europe, including the Canadian Journal of Economics, the American Economic Review, The Journal of Finance, the Canadian Tax Journal, Health Management Quarterly and Health Affairs.
 
As a journalist, he has written some 675 articles which have appeared in some 60    newspapers, including the Globe and Mail, the Wall Street Journal, the Vancouver Sun, the Chicago Tribune, the Reader's Digest, the Detroit News and the Western Star — the latter being the newspaper in his birthplace, Corner Brook, Newfoundland.  He has been a regular columnist in the Vancouver Province, the Toronto Sun, the Ottawa Citizen and is a member of The Financial Post Board of Economists.
 
As a broadcaster, he has written and delivered some 2,000 radio broadcasts on economic topics and appeared on radio and television programmes in Canada, the United States and Latin America.
 
As a consultant, he has provided advice to private groups and governments in the U.S., Argentina, Australia, Bermuda, Brazil, Chile, Hong Kong, Jamaica, New Zealand,  Mexico, Panama, Peru, Sweden, Venezuela and Canada.  He has lectured to over 1000 audiences at universities and in other venues on five continents.
 
He has also taught at the University of Western Ontario and Carleton and was employed at the Bank of Canada and the Federal Department of Finance.  He received his Ph.D. at the University of Western Ontario and his B.A. at St. Francis Xavier University.
 
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He is a director of a number of firms and other enterprises, including, Mancal Corporation, The Milton and Rose D. Friedman Foundation, The Max Bell Foundation, and VLINX.com Inc.  He is on the Editorial Consultative Committee of the CETA Institute of Economics, Peoples Republic of China.  In 1992 he was awarded the Colin M. Brown Freedom Medal and Award by the National Citizens Coalition.