John Whalley is a William G. Davis Chair in International Trade and professor of economics at the University of Western Ontario, and former distinguished fellow at CIGI. Professor Whalley received his PhD from Yale University (1973). In addition to his roles at CIGI and the University of Western Ontario, Dr. Whalley is a fellow of the Economic Society, a fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, and a foreign fellow of the Russian Academy of Sciences.
In January 2011, John was listed as the top-ranked Canadian researcher in the Research Papers in Economics (RePEc) database, which factors the number of papers published and the ranking of the individual journals. He is a fellow at the Royal Society of Canada and the Econometric Society, and a foreign fellow of the Russian Academy of Natural Sciences. John is the co-editor of CESifo Economic Studies, the journal published by the Center for Economic Studies (CES) and Oxford University Press, and Economic Forum published by the Institute for Economic Research. A recipient of the 2012 Canada Council Killam Prize, he is also a former joint managing editor of The World Economy.