Joanne Roberts is a Canadian economist and university administrator, currently serving as President of Yale-NUS College in Singapore. Prior to this position she was a professor at the University of Calgary and a Canada Research Chair in the Economics of Organizations. Education Roberts has a B.A. from the University of Waterloo (1993), and went to earn an M.A. (1995) and a Ph.D. (1998) from Queen's University at Kingston. Career Roberts was at the University of Toronto from 1998 until 2008. She then moved to the University of Calgary, and in 2012 she was promoted to professor in the department of economics. She was a Canada Research Chair in the Economics of Organizations at the University of Calgary from 2009 until 2014. where she would serve as the Executive Vice President for Academic Affairs from 2018 to 2022. Roberts will oversee the merger of Yale-NUS with NUS’s University Scholars Program to create the New College, expected to be finalized in 2025. A public economist, Robert formerly served as Co-Editor of the Canadian Journal of Economics from 2010 until 2014. She was president of the Canadian Women Economists Network which she investigated while a Canada Research Chair at the University of Calgary. Selected publications * **Reviewed by * * * Awards and honors In 2001 Roberts won the Polanyi prize for promising young scholars in Ontario.
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