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Canadian Women Economists Committee The Canadian Women Economists Committee/Comité des Femmes Économistes Canadiennes was created in 2017 as a standing committee of the Canadian Economic Association charged with supporting and promoting the advancement of women in the Canadian economics profession. It follows directly from the Canadian Women Economist Network (CWEN) which was founded in 1990 as an independent association of persons interested in promoting women economists and their ideas. The change from CWEN to CWEC recognizes that this responsibility of supporting and promoting women does not just fall on the female membership, but on the profession as a whole. Over the past three decades, CWEC/CWEN has been instrumental in promoting women’s involvement with and within the wider Canadian economics community. Canadian Economics Diversity Committee (CEDC) Following the recommendations from the Diversity Summit held in the spring of 2022, the CEA Board of Directors voted at the September 2022 board meeting to create the Canadian Economics Diversity Committee (CEDC). The CEDC is an oversight committee that will help direct the efforts on diversity and inclusion in the Economics profession. Sub-working groups of the CEDC include the Mentorship Committee, the Best Practices Committee, and the Affinity Group Meta-Committee. The inaugural chairs of the Diversity Committee are Professor David Green (University of British Columbia) and Professor Ismael Mourifie (University of Toronto). Committee Members include: Michelle Alexopoulos (co-chair of the Mentorship Committee); Janice Compton (as co-chair of the Mentorship Committee and representative of CWEC); Ke Pang, Byron Lew and Inbal Marcovitch (as co-chairs of the Best Practices committee); Prosper Donovon, Rob Gillezeau and Viet Vu (as co-chairs of the Affinity Meta-committee); Nick Dadson and Sermin Gungor (as co-chairs of the Data Committee); and Ana Ferrer (as chair of the Code of Conduct committee). |
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