{"id":9,"date":"2020-10-19T17:52:58","date_gmt":"2020-10-20T00:52:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/helliwell\/?page_id=9"},"modified":"2023-07-07T12:37:00","modified_gmt":"2023-07-07T19:37:00","slug":"professional-activities-biography","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/helliwell\/professional-activities-biography\/","title":{"rendered":"Professional Activities\/Biography"},"content":{"rendered":"<style>\nh1.entry-title {<br \/>display: none;<br \/>}<br \/>ul {<br \/>list-style-position: inside;<br \/>}<br \/>div.content-area {<br \/>font-family: sans-serif;<br \/>}<br \/><\/style>\n<h2>Professional Activities<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li type=\"disk\">Distinguished Fellow of the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research. 2017-<\/li>\n<li>Co-director (with George Akerlof) of the CIFAR Program on &#8216;Social Interactions, Identity and Well-Being&#8217;, 2005-2017<\/li>\n<li>International Advisory Board, Centre for International Governance Innovation, 2002-2010<\/li>\n<li>Member of National Statistics Council, 2001-2015<\/li>\n<li>Board member, Social Research and Demonstration Corporation, 2002-2015<\/li>\n<li>Research Associate, National Bureau of Economic Research, 1980-2023<\/li>\n<li>Board Member, Institute for Research in Public Policy, 1999-2007<\/li>\n<li>Killam Visiting Scholar, University of Calgary, 2005.<\/li>\n<li>Visiting Special Advisor, Bank of Canada, 2003-04<\/li>\n<li>Visiting Fellow, Merton College, Oxford, 2003<\/li>\n<li>Visiting Fellow, St Catherine&#8217;s College, Oxford, 2001.<\/li>\n<li type=\"disk\">Mackenzie King Visiting Professor of Canadian Studies, Harvard University 1991 &#8211; 1994<\/li>\n<li type=\"disk\">Fulbright Fellow and Co-chair of Canada Program, Harvard University 1995 &#8211; 1996<\/li>\n<li>President, Canadian Economics Association, 1985-86<\/li>\n<li type=\"disk\">Managing Editor,\u00a0<i>Canadian Journal of Economics<\/i>, 1979-1982.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Brief biography<\/h2>\n<p>John F. Helliwell is a Distinguished Fellow of the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research. He is also Professor Emeritus of Economics at the University of British Columbia. He was previously a member of the National Statistics Council 2001-2015, visiting special advisor at the Bank of Canada in 2003-04, visiting research fellow of Merton College, Oxford, in 2003, of St. Catherine&#8217;s College, Oxford, in 2001, and Mackenzie King Visiting Professor of Canadian Studies at Harvard in 1991-94. His books include How Much Do National Borders Matter? (Brookings Institution, 1998), The Contribution of Human and Social Capital to Sustained Economic Growth and Well-Being (OECD and HRDC, 2001), Globalization and Well-Being (UBC Press, 2002, also as Mondialisation et bien-\u00eatre, Les Presses de l&#8217;Universit\u00e9 Laval, 2005), The Science of Well-Being (Oxford University Press, 2005), Well-Being for Public Policy (OUP, with Diener, Lucas and Schimmack, 2009), International Differences in Well-Being (OUP, edited with Diener and Kahneman, 2010), and the World Happiness Report (edited with Richard Layard and Jeffrey Sachs for the April 2, 2012 UN meeting on Happiness) . Recent articles include &#8220;Well-Being, Social Capital and Public Policy: What&#8217;s New?&#8221; (Economic Journal, March 2006), &#8220;Well-Being and Social Capital: Does Suicide Pose a Puzzle?&#8221; (Social Indicators Research, 2007), &#8220;How&#8217;s Your Government? International Evidence Linking Good Government and Well-Being.&#8221; (joint with Haifang Huang, British Journal of Political Science 2007), &#8220;The Social Context of Well-Being&#8221; (joint with Robert Putnam) in Huppert, Bayliss and Keverne, eds, &#8220;Measuring and Understanding Subjective Well-Being&#8221; (joint with Christopher P. Barrington-Leigh, Canadian Journal of Economics 2010) and &#8220;Trust and Well-Being&#8221; (joint with Shun Wang, International Journal of Wellbeing 2011). He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada and an Officer of the Order of Canada.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Professional Activities Distinguished Fellow of the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research. 2017- Co-director (with George Akerlof) of the CIFAR Program on &#8216;Social Interactions, Identity and Well-Being&#8217;, 2005-2017 International Advisory Board, Centre for International Governance Innovation, 2002-2010 Member of National Statistics Council, 2001-2015 Board member, Social Research and Demonstration Corporation, 2002-2015 Research Associate, National Bureau of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/helliwell\/professional-activities-biography\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Professional Activities\/Biography<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":76654,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-9","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/helliwell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/9","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/helliwell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/helliwell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/helliwell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/76654"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/helliwell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/helliwell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/9\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":365,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/helliwell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/9\/revisions\/365"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/helliwell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}