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James O. Stanford [1] , commonly known as Jim Stanford is a Canadian economist, author, and commentator. He is the founder of the Progressive Economics Forum and director of the Centre for Future Work, firstly in Canberra, Australia and in the namesake institution in Vancouver, Canada since 2024. Stanford is also an author of a column for the Canadian newspaper The Globe and Mail . [2]

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Stanford obtained a BA in economics from the University of Calgary in 1984, a master's degree in economics from Cambridge University in 1986. He worked as a research economist at the Canadian Energy Research Institute from 1986 to 1989 before moving to New York City for his doctoral studies in 1990. Stanford attended the New School for Social Research and obtained a PhD in 1995, also in economics. During this time, Stanford was a research fellow at the Brookings Institution from 1992 to 1993. In 1994, Stanford became an economist at the trade union Unifor, where he worked until 2015 and was also the Director of Economic, Social and Sectoral Policy. Stanford became an industry professor at McMaster University starting from 2015. [1] In 2016 Stanford relocated to Australia, where he is the founding director of the Centre for the Future of Work, a non-partisan research organization funded by the public policy think tanks, Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives and The Australia Institute. He is also a regular contributor on economics to Huffington Post Australia. [3] [4] [5]

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  2. "About the Director". Centre for Future Work. Retrieved 2025-02-01.
  3. "Jim Stanford at Huffington Post Australia". Huffington Post Australia. Archived from the original on 17 May 2018. Retrieved 3 August 2017.
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