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The Department of Economics would like to congratulate our 2026 graduating class award winners for their hard work and excellence.

Faculty of Arts winner of the Alumni Gold Medal: Mike Frapporti

Faculty of Arts Departmental Award winner: Naomi Ellis

Senior Honours Essay Award winner: Nour Elkhawass, for her essay "AI Diffusion and Productivity Divergence in Developing Economies"

Honours Economics Achievement winners: Euan Lawrence & Rachel Finamore

Iban Ortuzar Fernandez, Post-Doctoral Fellow (PDF) in the Department of Economics, joins the Joint Research Center (JRC) of the European Commission as an Economic Analyst.

 Co-directed by Joël Blit (UWaterloo) and Danielle Goldfarb (University of Toronto), CAIAI seeks to reverse Canada’s productivity decline and strengthen competitiveness by accelerating AI integration. 

University of Waterloo Economics Sponsored Research Chair, Tao Chen, has been appointed the Special Advisor on Commercialization Strategy for the Centre for Eye and Vision Research (CEVR) in Hong Kong.

Innovation is progressing at an ever-faster rate. Can we embrace and regulate it in a way that benefits everyone?

UWaterloo Economics Professor Joel Bilt has been appointed by the National Research Council of Canada.

DeepSeek, a relatively unknown Chinese AI startup, has upended expectations with a new model that rivals the best in the world – yet which it says cost only US$5.6-million to train, about a one-10th of what was previously thought necessary.

Congratulations to Tao Chen

Prof. Joel Blit provides important insights in this podcast.