SPECIAL MEETING: Alberta's Halting Economic Recovery - Implications for Alberta's Public Finances

Join us for an online presentation from one of Alberta's leading economists and authorities on public finances. 

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Bob  Ascah was born in Lachine  Quebec.  He holds degrees in Commerce and Public Administration (M.A) from Carleton University.  In 1979, he decamped to Edmonton and completed his doctorate in political science at the University of Alberta in 1984. He joined the Alberta public service in 1984 (Federal and Intergovernmental Affairs) and moved to Alberta Treasury in 1986.  At Treasury he was responsible for financial sector policy, foreign borrowing and liaison with credit rating agencies.  In 1996, he joined Alberta Treasury Branches, serving initially as Secretary to the Board and then becaming responsible for government relations, strategic planning, and economic research.  In 2009, he retired from ATB and in August of 2009 he was appointed Director of the Institute for Public Economics at The University of Alberta where he served for four years. He is currently a Research Fellow at the Parkland Institute.

In 1999, Ascah's Ph.D. dissertation Politics and Public Debt- The Dominion, the Banks and Alberta's Social Credit was published by the University of Alberta Press. He is Principal of Abpolecon.ca a website focusing on new, analysis and opinion on Alberta’s political and economic environment. He is currently editing a book entitled A Sales Tax for Alberta- Why and How to be published by Athabasca University Press in 2021. He lives in Edmonton with his wife Linda and two cats Violet and Phoebe.