Ross McKitrick
Professor of Economics 
Department of Economics and Finance
University of Guelph
ross.mckitrick [at] uoguelph.ca
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SHORT BIO: 
  • Ross McKitrick is a Professor of Economics at the University of Guelph where he specializes in environment, energy and climate policy. He has published widely on the economics of pollution, climate change and public policy. His book Economic Analysis of Environmental Policy was published by the University of Toronto Press in 2010.  His background in applied statistics has also led him to collaborative work across a wide range of topics in the physical sciences including paleoclimate reconstruction, malaria transmission, surface temperature measurement and climate model evaluation. Professor McKitrick has made many invited academic presentations around the world, and has testified before the US Congress and committees of the Canadian House of Commons and Senate. 

LONG BIO:
Professor McKitrick holds a BA in economics from Queen's University, and an MA and Ph.D. in economics from the University of British Columbia. He was appointed Assistant Professor in the Department of Economics at the University of Guelph in 1996, Associate Professor in 2001 and Full Professor in 2009. He is also a Senior Fellow of the Fraser Institute and a member of the Academic Advisory Panel of the Global Warming Policy Foundation.

His area of specialization is environmental economics and policy analysis. His research areas include the relationship between economic growth and pollution emissions; regulatory mechanism design; and numerous aspects of the science and policy of global warming. His economics research has appeared in such outlets as The Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, Economic Modeling, The Canadian Journal of Economics, Empirical Economics, The Energy Journal, and Environmental and Resource Economics. His physical science research has appeared in journals such as Journal of Geophysical Research, Geophysical Research Letters, Climatic Change, Climate Dynamics and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. He is the author of the advanced textbook Economic Analysis of Environmental Policy, published by the University of Toronto Press in 2010. In 2002 he and Christopher Essex of the University of Western Ontario published the book Taken By Storm: The Troubled Science, Policy and Politics of Global Warming which was awarded the $10,000 Donner Prize for Best Book on Canadian Public Policy. 

Professor McKitrick is widely-cited in Canada and around the world as an expert on global warming and environmental policy issues. He has been interviewed by Time, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The National Post, The Globe and Mail, the CBC, BBC, ITV, Fox News, Bloomberg, Global TV, CTV, and others. His commentaries have appeared in many newspapers and magazines, including Newsweek and the Financial Post. His research has been discussed in such places as Nature, Science, The Economist, Natuurwetenschap&Techniek, The National Post, The Globe and Mail and in a front page article in the The Wall Street Journal (Feb 14 2005). 

Professor McKitrick has made invited academic presentations around the world, and he has testified before the US Congress and Committees of the Canadian House of Commons and Senate. 



​My Google Scholar Profile is here.
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My Erdos Number is 3.

Recent and current talks:

2024
  • May 31: Canadian Economics Association, Toronto


2023
  • June 1: Canadian Economics Association, Winnipeg
  • May 3: Canadian International Council, Montreal 
  • May 1: Rotary Club, Brampton ON
  • February 6: Heartland International Climate Conference, Miami FL
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2022
  • November 8: Pacific Energy Innovation Association, Vancouver BC (virtual)

2021
  • October 11: Heartland International Climate Conference (virtual)
  • August 26: Fifth Conference on Econometric Models of Climate Change, University of Victoria BC (virtual)
  • June 27: European Association of Environment and Resource Economists, Berlin (virtual)
  • June 21: House of Commons Standing Committee on Natural Resources, Ottawa (virtual)
  • June 17: Probus Mississauga (virtual)
  • June 7: International Association of Energy Economists (virtual)
  • May 27: Society for Environmental Law and Economics (virtual)
  • May 11: Rotary Club, Calgary (virtual)
  • May 10: Irish Climate Science Forum, Dublin (virtual)
  • May 5: Fraser Institute Student Seminar, Vancouver BC (virtual)

2020
  • August 20: Royal City Men's Club, Guelph Ontario
  • February 10: University of Victoria Department of Economics, Victoria BC
  • February 8: Fraser Institute Student Policy Seminar
  • February 7: University of British Columbia Faculty of Land and Food Systems, Vancouver BC

2019
  • September 8: Steyn@Sea Climate Change Session, Glacier Bay Alaska
  • March 23: Manning Networking Conference, Ottawa

2018
  • November 18: Southern Economics Association, Washington DC
  • October 18: Canadian Senate Committee on Energy, Environment and Natural Resources, Ottawa
  • August 20: World Federation of Scientists, Erice Italy
  • June 14: Applewood Probus, Mississauga ON
  • June 1: University Government Relations Officer Conference. Waterloo ON
  • April 18: Competitive Enterprise Institute, Washington DC
  • April 17: American Statistical Association meetings, Reston VA
  • April 28: Civitas Policy Conference, Montreal PQ
  • April 2: Guest lecture, Growth and Development class
  • March 2: Department of Economics, University of Winnipeg

2017
  • November 8: Heartland Institute Energy Conference, Houston TX
  • October 1: Canadian Resource and Environmental Economics Study Group, Western University, London ON
  • June 30: European Environmental and Resource Economics Association, Athens Greece 
  • June 2: Canadian Economics Association, Antigonish NS
  • May 26: Society for Environmental Law and Economics, Oxford UK
  • March 16: Heartland Institute 12th International Conference on Climate Change, Washington DC
  • February 28: Guelph Wellington Men's Club, Guelph ON
  • February 16: Heritage Foundation Event on Social Cost of Carbon, Washington DC
  • February 6: Fourth Santa Fe Climate Conference, Santa Fe NM

2016
  • December 9: Harvard Electricity Policy Group, Scottsdale AZ
  • November 28: Guest lecturer, Natural Resource Economics, Queen's University Department of Economics, Kingston ON
  • November 21-25: Weatherall Visiting Lecturer, Queen's University Department of Economics, Kingston ON
  • October 10: Eco-Fiscal Commission, Salon Discussion on Carbon Taxes, Toronto ON
  • October 1: Canadian Resource and Environmental Economics Study Group, Banff AB
  • September 27: Senate of Canada Transportation and Communications Committee, Ottawa ON
  • June 3: Canadian Economics Association, Ottawa ON
  • May 13: Environmental Conference for High School Students, Toronto ON
  • April 14: Council for Clean and Reliable Electricity Panel on Carbon Pricing, Hockley Valley ON
  • March 29: CO2 Coalition, New York NY
  • March 1: MLA Panel on Electricity Policy, Calgary AB
  • February 26: Panel on Green Conservatism, Manning Networking Conference, Ottawa ON

2015
  • November 19: Cooler Heads Briefing, CEI, Washington DC
  • July 29: Community Meeting, West Elgin ON
  • June 15: Talk Local Community TV, Guelph ON
  • May 30-31: Canadian Economics Association, Toronto ON
  • May 12: Competitive Enterprise Institute, Washington DC
  • April 22-23: Econometric Applications in Climatology Workshop, Guelph
  • April 9-11: Greer-Heard Point Counterpoint Forum, New Orleans LA
  • February 28: Wind Concerns Ontario, Guelph

2014
  • October 6: University of Guelph Sustainability Class
  • September 18-19: Global Business Forum, Banff Alberta
  • August 17-23: WFS Seminar on Planetary Emergencies, Erice Italy
  • June 28-July2: World Congress of Environmental Economics, Istanbul Turkey
  • June 23-24: Canadian Sustainable Use Network, University of Calgary School of Public Policy
  • May 29-June 1: Canadian Economics Association, Vancouver BC
  • May 13: Friends of Science Keynote Address, Calgary 
  • May 2-4: Civitas Public Policy Conference, Toronto ON
  • March 21: University of Guelph Sustainability Symposium
  • March 15: College Royal, University of Guelph
  • March 12: Environmental Philosophy Guest Lecture, University of Guelph
  • March 4: Research Matters Seminar, Thunder Bay ON

2013
  • November 7: University of Waterloo Department of Statistics and Actuarial Science
  • October 9: PhD Research Seminar, College of Management and Economics University of Guelph 
  • August 17-21: WFS Seminar on Planetary Emergencies, Erice Italy
  • July 3: Global Warming Policy Foundation Seminar, UK House of Lords 
  • June 11: The International Environmetrics Society, Anchorage Alaska
  • June 7: First International Workshop on Econometric Applications in Climatology, Guelph ON
  • March 2: Fraser Institute Student Seminar on Public Policy, Toronto
  • March 1: University of Waterloo Department of Economics
  • February 21: Kitchener Third Age Learning Group

2012
  • November 17: CIGI-INET Conference "False Dichotomies", Waterloo ON
  • September 29-30: Canadian Resource and Environmental Economics Study Group, Vancouver BC
  • September 17-18: Friedrich-Naumann-Foundation for Freedom (FNF) Colloquium on Energy Policy, Potsdam Germany
  • August 20-21: World Federation of Scientists Seminar on Planetary Emergencies, Erice Italy
  • May 29: Huron College, University of Western Ontario, London ON
  • April 19: Confederation Club, Kitchener
  • March 27: MacDonald-Laurier Institute, Toronto
  • March 16: Grand Valley Group of Engineers, Waterloo
  • January 30: U of G Economics Department Brownbag Seminar 
  • January 11: Certified Crop Advisor Conference, London ON


Complete list of past talks

LETTERS PAGE IN NATIONAL POST

There was something in the National Post letters page on October 28 2013 that really made my day. 

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