Dr. Frank Anton Distinguished Lecture in Economics

The Dr. Frank Anton Distinguished Lecture Series brings some of the world’s top economists to Calgary to lecture on an important public policy topic to a mixed audience of undergraduate and graduate students, university faculty, and alumni. Its purpose is to enrich the undergraduate and graduate experience at the University of Calgary, raise the Department’s international profile, and share thought provoking lectures with the University community.

The 2025 Distinguished Lecturer is TBA.

The 2025 Distinguished Lecturer will be on March 7, 2025.

Past distinguished lectures

The Wage Standard

Dr. Arindrajit Dube, NBER

Regulation, Innovation, and the Climate Transition

Dr. Meredith Fowlie, the Energy Institute at Haas

Understanding and Reducing Inequality in Education

Dr. Susan Dynarski, University of Michigan

Is Multilateralism Dead?: Trade in the Era of Trump

Dr. Robert Staiger, Dartmouth College

The Economics of Immigration

Dr. David Card, UC Berkeley