External academic consultants

Jorge Cruz Lopez

"I am an Assistant Professor in the Department of Economics at the University of Western Ontario. I joined the university in 2019 after spending eight years at the Bank of Canada, where I worked as a Senior Economist and as a Principal Researcher.

My research interests include financial asset pricing, financial risk management and financial market infrastructures (FMIs). I was published in academic and practitioner journals, I served in editorial boards, and I spoke at several conferences, universities, and policy institutions, including the Bank for International Settlements (BIS), the Federal Reserve Board of Governors and various other central banks. I have been an Academic Consultant for the Bank of Canada since 2019 and have previously spent time as a Visiting Scholar at De Nederlandsche Bank, HEC Paris and Queensland University of Technology. I have also held teaching positions in the business schools of Carleton University, the University of Ottawa and Simon Fraser University, where I obtained a PhD in finance in 2014.

In addition to my academic responsibilities, I serve as the Director of Financial Engineering and Research at Financial Network Analytics Ltd. (FNA), a leader in Regulatory Technology (RegTech) and Supervisory Technology (SupTech). I am also a member of the Advisory Board of the New York Institute of Finance, a training center for professionals in the financial services industry."

Gregory Bauer

"I am the Associate Dean, Strategic Partnerships and full Professor at the Gordon S. Lang School of Business and Economics. Prior to joining Lang, I was the Michael J. Barclay Alumni Professor and Associate Dean of Full-Time Programs at the Simon Business School, University of Rochester. In that role, I was responsible for admissions, academic affairs and career advice for the full-time MBA, MS in Finance, MS in Accounting, MS in Business Analytics and MS in Marketing Analytics programs. I received my doctorate from the Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania. I also hold the Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) designation.

Prior to rejoining the Simon School in a full-time capacity in 2017, I worked at the Bank of Canada for 17 years in a variety of roles. My last position was as the Senior Research Director in the Financial Markets Department. My research has contributed to important public policy debates on: the likelihood of house price corrections; the interaction of monetary and financial stability policies; and, the limitations imposed by global financial markets on the ability of central banks to conduct conventional and non-conventional monetary policies. My work has received attention in the Canadian press and had an impact on the inflation-targeting agreement between the Bank and the Government of Canada. I have published articles in the Journal of Financial Economics, the Review of Economic Studies, the Journal of Econometrics, the Journal of International Money and Finance, and the International Journal of Central Banking.

My current research is focused on the Government of Canada bond market. In collaboration with researchers at the Bank, I am examining the role of asymmetric information in the market and evaluating the impact of the Bank’s policy interventions during the COVID-19 pandemic.”

Luba Peterson

I am an Associate Professor of Economics at Simon Fraser University and co-director of the SFU Experimental Economics Laboratory. I am also a Research Associate with the NBER, a Research Fellow for the CEPR RPN in Central Bank Communication, an Advisory Council Member for the Society for Computational Economics, and a Monetary Policy Institute fellow at the C.D. Howe Institute.

My research is centered on the design of monetary policy and central bank communication, focusing on how these tools can influence boundedly rational expectations and financial decision-making. I am especially interested in exploring ways to effectively communicate more complex monetary policies—such as those involving history-dependence and make-up strategies—to the general public. Additionally, I have a series of papers examining the design of forward guidance and the presentation of central bank projections. My areas of interest include macroeconomics, monetary policy and experimental economics.”

Evan Dudley

“I am an Associate Professor and Distinguished Faculty Fellow of Finance. My research interests lie in corporate finance, climate finance, and fixed-income markets. Currently, my research focuses on the role of intermediaries and technology in over-the-counter markets. I am also investigating the pricing of climate transition risk in capital markets and examining how corporate pollution events impact institutional bond holdings.

I have taught across undergraduate, graduate, and professional MBA programs, including the University of Florida’s Professional MBA program, the Smith School of Business Full-Time MBA, and the Smith School of Business Master’s in Finance program in Toronto. I am the recipient of multiple Social Science and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) grants and have served on the SSHRC Insight Grants review committee.

I earned a PhD in Finance from the University of Rochester and previously served on the faculty at the University of Florida. My professional experience includes working in risk management and fixed-income sales and trading with National Bank of Canada and National Bank Financial.”