A CIRANO Researcher and Fellow since 2004, Brahim Boudarbat is Full Professor in the School of Industrial Relations of the Université de Montréal. He is also Director of the Observatoire de la Francophonie économique de l'Université de Montréal, a Fellow of the Institute of Labor Economics (IZA) and a member of the Expert Committee of the Labour Market Information Council.

Holding a Ph.D. in Economics from the Université de Montréal, he is interested in issues related to immigration, post-secondary education, income inequality and working conditions of Canadians. In particular, his research interests and work focus on the integration of immigrants into the labour market in Quebec and Canada, career choices by young Canadians, income distribution, income gaps between men and women, the return on education, overqualification in the job, the use of languages at work and their remuneration in Quebec, the brain drain, indicators of job quality. He is also interested in the education and vocational training systems and youth employment in Morocco.

Brahim Boudarbat is the author of numerous articles and reports on the labour market. He has conducted studies for several organizations, including the Quebec Ministry of Immigration, Diversity and Inclusion, Emploi-Québec, the Commission des partenaires du marché du travail (Quebec) and Human Resources and Skills Development Canada. He also participated in the drafting of the 2016 Arab Human Development Report for the United Nations Development Program (UNDP).

Prior to his current position, Brahim Boudarbat was a postdoctoral researcher and lecturer in the Department of Economics at the University of British Columbia (UBC). He was also Director of the Data Centre of the Université de Montréal, a member organization of the Quebec Inter-University Centre for Social Statistics (QICSS). From 1991 to 1998, Brahim Boudarbat was responsible for employment policies and the monitoring of the professional integration of graduates within the Ministry of Vocational Training in Morocco.

Nathalie de Marcellis-Warin joined CIRANO in 2000 as a postdoctoral researcher and was appointed President and CEO in 2016, after serving as Vice-President from 2008 to 2016. Since 2011, she has led the CIRANO Barometer project on risk perception in Quebec, which annually collects data on Quebecers’ concerns regarding 47 major societal issues. She is also Head of the CIRANO Research Pole on the Socioeconomic Impacts of Digital Intelligence and Principal Investigator of the Innovation and Digital Transformation research theme.

She is a Full Professor in the Department of Mathematics and Industrial Engineering at Polytechnique Montréal, where she also serves as Academic Director of PolyFinances. In addition, she is a Visiting Scientist at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health and an Associate Researcher at the Institute for Data Valorization (IVADO).

She holds a PhD in Management Science (specializing in risk management and insurance) from the École normale supérieure de Cachan. Her research focuses on risk management and decision-making in contexts of risk and uncertainty, as well as the design and evaluation of public policies. Her work combines economic analysis, cost-benefit analysis, survey data analysis, and more recently, large-scale unstructured data analytics.

In 2008, she founded the RISQH network, a knowledge-sharing and awareness network dedicated to risk management, patient safety, and quality of care in healthcare institutions. She contributed to the development of the Montreal Declaration for a Responsible Development of Artificial Intelligence.

She serves as Scientific Director of the Measurement Tools, Monitoring and Surveys Division at the International Observatory on the Societal Impacts of AI and Digital Technologies (OBVIA). She is also co-founder of the International Francophone Network on Scientific Advice (RFICS).

At CIRANO, she leads and contributes to several large-scale research initiatives, notably the creation of an economic digital twin of the St. Lawrence–Great Lakes region (GVCdtLab), developed in collaboration with the federal government.

She has published numerous scientific articles, several books, and more than 40 reports for government and other organizations. She has delivered over one hundred conferences and is regularly invited to speak in the media.

A CIRANO Researcher and Fellow since 2003, Maurice Doyon is Full Professor in the Department of Agri-Food Economics and Consumer Science at Université Laval. He is also Holder of the Egg Industry Economic Research Chair.

Holding a Ph.D. in Applied Economics from Cornell University, his research interests are the impact of market structure changes on agri-food chains, market design, determination of willingness to pay for private and public goods, and experimental economics.

A CIRANO Researcher and Fellow, Sabine Kröger is Full Professor in the Department of Economics at Université Laval. She is a member of Centre de recherche sur les risques, les enjeux économiques et politiques publiques (CRREP) and of Disability, Employment, and Public Policies Initiative (DEPPI), a joint research initiative of CRREP and of Centre interdisciplinaire de recherche en réadaptation et intégration sociale (CIRRIS). She is also Founder and Director of the Laboratoire d'Économie Expérimentale de l'Université Laval (LEEL).

Holding a Ph.D. in Economics from CentER, Tilburg University, her research interests are experimental economics, behavioral economics, subjective expectations and social preferences.

Sabine Kröger studies decision making under uncertainty and how "human traits" such as social preferences, social norms and cognitive shortcuts affect the decision-making process. In her research, she uses a combination of standard and innovative economic techniques. In particular, she is one of the pioneers in the use of Internet surveys to conduct economic experiments with representative samples of a population.

CIRANO Researcher and Fellow since 2012, Vice-President Strategy and Government Relations and Principal Researcher of the Health theme, Pierre-Carl Michaud is a full professor in the Department of Applied Economics at HEC Montréal. He also holds the Jacques-Parizeau Research Chair in Economic Policy.

Holder of a PhD in economics from CentER, Tilburg University, his research focuses on household and public finances and policy evaluation, with an emphasis on the economic consequences of demographic change.

His work has been funded by numerous organisations and his research has been published in leading academic journals. He has received several prizes and awards for his research, including the Marcel-Dagenais Prize (SCSE) and the Esdras-Minville Prize (HEC Montréal). He is a member of the Royal Society of Canada's College of New Researchers and was awarded the Coronation Medal of King Charles III.

A CIRANO Researcher and Fellow since 2001, Benoit Perron is Full Professor in the Department of Economics at Université de Montréal.

Hlding a Ph.D. in Economics from Yale University, his research interests are financial and macroeconomic data modelling and the development of inference tools. His recent work has focused on the use of factor models and multi-horizon forecasting.

A CIRANO Researcher and Fellow since 2010, Pierre Olivier Pineau is Full Professor in the Department of Decision Sciences at HEC Montréal and Holder of the Chair in Energy Sector Management.

Holding a Ph.D. in Administration from HEC Montréal, he is interested in electricity and energy policies, with a special focus on investment models, institutional reforms and market integration.