TAU Canada presents …

Len Waverman
Leonard is an economist by training. He has a Bachelor of Commerce degree and a Master’s degree in economics from the University of Toronto and he earned his PhD from MIT. He has taught at the University of Toronto, London Business School, the University of Calgary where he was also Dean of the Haskayne School of Business and McMaster University where he was also the Dean of the DeGroote School of Business until July 2021. His research originally focused on the energy sector where he was founding editor of the Energy Journal. Since the early 1980s, he has turned his attention to the neglected Public Utilities sector and specifically telecommunications. He has published pathbreaking research on the impact of telecommunications and the Internet on economic growth and productivity. Besides this research, he is also being a regulator several times – part time on the Ontario energy board and on the Ontario Telephone Service Commission. While in the UK he was a nonexecutive board member of the Gas and Electric Market Authority. Over this entire period, he’s also been very active in competition policy in research, organizing cross country competition policy interaction and as a consultant.
He is a citizen of both Canada and France. He’s been recognized for his research – for example, the focus section and cover page of the Economist Magazine as well as Global Telecoms Magazine. He has been on the boards of nonprofits in the arts, energy and economic research spaces, start-ups in the UK, and the Canadian board of BNP Paribas Canada. He’s been honored by the French government holding a Chevalier dans l’Ordre des Palmes Academiques.