Alain Paquet is a full professor of economics at the School of Management of the University of Quebec at Montreal (ESG-UQAM), which he joined in 1988. He is also director of the research focus axis on macroeconomic analysis and modelling of the Chair in Macroeconomics and Forecasting at ESG-UQAM. He has a Ph.D. in economics from the University of Rochester (N.Y., USA), an M.A. in economics from Queen’s University (Ontario, Canada) and a bachelor’s degree in economics from Laval University (Quebec, Canada). He specializes in the macroeconomics of economic growth and fluctuations, macroeconometrics, financial economics, as well as questions on monetary policy, fiscal policy and public debt management. He has conducted various research projects in macroeconomics, with a diverse experience as an academic, researcher, a public policymaker and a consultant to several public and private organizations, in Canada and around the world. He has published several articles in scientific journals and has been regularly called upon as a speaker at national and international meetings. From 2003 to 2012, he also served as Member of the Quebec National Assembly and held positions of Chairman of the Public Finance Committee, parliamentary assistant to the Minister of Finance, and to the Quebec Premier for economics, and State Minister for Finance. Within the Government of Quebec, he was directly involved in the development and implementation of several economic measures and priorities. His various mandates have led him to assist directly the Quebec Premier in pursuing the government’s economic priorities and to advise him on specific issues, such as productivity, innovation, and entrepreneurship.