Markus Poschke received his Ph.D. from the European University Institute (EUI). He is an Associate Professor and William Dawson Scholar in the Department of Economics at McGill University, Montreal, where he has been working since 2007. His main research interests are in macroeconomics broadly, in particular inequality, taxation, growth theory, firm dynamics, entrepreneurship, structural change, and the macroeconomics of labour markets.

He received the Bank of Canada's Governor's Award in 2018.