Leonard Waverman

             Leonard Waverman is Dean of the Haskayne School of Business at the University of Calgary (since January 2008) and a Fellow of the London Business School. For the eight years prior to returning to Canada, he was a Professor of Economics at London Business School and from 2003-2007 Chair of the economics subject area at LBS.

Professor Waverman's current research is on the growth and productivity impacts of the rollout of telecommunications and computers.  His analysis of the impacts of mobile phone rollout on growth in Africa was the subject of the Economic Focus section of the Economist, March 12, 2005.  He has authored the influential Connectivity Scorecard, an annual Index that ranks countries according to how advanced their communications networks are in promoting productivity and economic growth.  (www.connectivityscorecard.org)

             In January 2009 he was cited as one of the world's top 50 most influential thought leaders in the telecommunications industry by Global Telecoms Magazine.

His most influential publication is "Telecommunications Infrastructure and Economic Development", joint with Lars Hendrik Roeller, American Economic Review Sept 2001.

He is on the Academic Advisory Board of Columbia University's Centre for Tele-Information and a Fellow of the University of California at Berkeley's Fisher IT Center. 

For five years until May 2007, Dr. Waverman was a non-executive Board member of the UK's energy regulator the Gas and Electricity Market Authority. He was on the Advisory Committee introducing Competition in Ontario's Electricity system (1995-1996), a part-time Board Member of the Ontario Energy Board, as well as of the Ontario Telephone Service Commission, and a member of the US National Association of Regulatory Utility Commissioners (NARUC) for 6 years.  He edited the major Journal in energy economics The Energy Journal for 6 years.

He is currently on the Editorial Board of Telecommunications Policy an Elsevier scholarly Journal, a Director of the C. D. Howe Institute,  on the Chairman's Advisory Committee of the Alberta Energy Resources Conservation Board and a Board Member of the Calgary Philharmonic Symphony.

Professor Waverman has a B. Comm. and MA (studying with Marshall McLuhan) from the University of Toronto and a PhD in economics from MIT.  He is a citizen of Canada and of France and has received the honor of Chevalier dans l'Ordre des Palmes Academiques from the Government of France.

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