Len Waverman
Leonard Waverman is the former Dean of the DeGroote School of Business at McMaster University, and a former member of the C.D. Howe Institute’s Board of Directors. He continues as a professor of finance and business economics and as the Acting Director of the newly formed Foresight Lab, both at McMaster.
Dr. Waverman is a world-renowned expert in international telecommunications and global resources management. He specializes in microeconomics and industrial organization, economics of telecommunications, energy and resource economics, international trade, public utility and public enterprise economics. His research continues to focus on the impact that developments in the telecommunication industry have on growth and productivity.
Dr. Waverman has consulted widely on energy, natural resources, telecommunications, and competition policy matters in Canada, the United States, and Europe.
Dr. Waverman has been awarded the “Chevalier dans L’Ordre des Palmes Academiques” by the Government of France (1995) and a Top 100 Alumnae of Distinction from University College, University of Toronto (2012).
From 2003-2007 Waverman was the non-executive Board member of the Gas and Electric Markets Authority (GEMA) UK. He was a part time member of the Ontario Energy Board (1978-1980); a member of the MacDonald Commission on Introducing Competition in Ontario Hydro (1995-1996); a part-time Board Member of the Ontario Telephone Service Commission (1989-1994); and amember National Association of Regulatory Utility Commissioners (“NARUC”) for six years.
He earned his BCom and MA from the University of Toronto and his PhD in economics from MIT. He has been a professor of economics at the University of Toronto and the London Business School and Dean of the Haskayne School of Business as well as professor of strategy at the University of Calgary.