U of A Economics Majors Crowned National Champions of the Bank of Canada Governor's Challenge
Rick Szostak - 16 February 2021
We are very pleased to announce that the team from our Economics Department has won this year's Bank of Canada "Governor’s Challenge.” This academic year, 22 teams from across the country had entered the competition. Five teams survived the first round in November 2020. These teams would normally have travelled to Ottawa for the final round, but this year competed online. Each team gave a presentation on the economic outlook for Canada and made a monetary policy recommendation to a panel of senior central bank officials. The panel then asked them questions. The five team members: Austin Ference, Besindone Dumi-Leslie, Joseph Hoekstra, Robyn Taylor and Sam Grootelaar are all Economics Majors. The team was guided by two faculty advisors from the Department of Economics, Malik Shukayev and Max Sties. Elevated economic uncertainty and remote participation made this annual competition particularly challenging this year. Congratulations to the University of Alberta team and their faculty advisors!