Chair of the IESO Board of Directors

Tim O'Neill is Chair of the IESO Board of Directors. He is is the President of O’Neill Strategic Economics and a Visiting Professor at Duke University; he is a member of the Canadian Employment Insurance Financing Board and a Director of the United Church of Canada Foundation. After retiring from BMO Financial Group where he served as Executive Vice President and Chief Economist, he was the first H. Ian MacDonald Visiting Economist with the Ontario government. He served as President of the Atlantic Provinces Economic Council after teaching in the Department of Economics at St. Mary's University in Halifax for 12 years. He has served as a consultant to several provincial governments, as well as the federal government. Dr. O’Neill is the first Canadian economist to be elected to the Board of Governors of the Washington-based National Association for Business Economics (NABE) where he served as president from October 2002 until September 2003.