Economics Alumni Pub Night

You and a guest are invited to the annual Economics Alumni Fall Pub Night! This is a great opportunity to reconnect with your fellow UVic Econ alumni, faculty and with current Econ students in a casual setting. With your registration you will receive entry into the pub night along with a selection of appetizers and a drink ticket.

Date: Friday, November 13, 2026
Time: 5 p.m. - 7 p.m.
Location: Sticky Wicket Pub - Maple Room, Victoria BC

Cost: $12 per person - register online (below) by November 11
$15 - register and pay at the door (cash only)
*cost includes one drink ticket and appetizers

Guest Speaker - Dr. Christopher Ragan, BA (Honours) '84

Dr. Christopher Ragan is an economist, author, and public speaker with over thirty years' experience as an economics and policy professor in Canada. He is recently retired from McGill University where he served as, among other roles, the founding director of McGill’s University’s Max Bell School of Public Policy. Chris’s published research focuses on the conduct of macroeconomic policy, and he is the author of one of the leading economics principles textbooks in Canada.

Chris was the Chair of Canada’s Ecofiscal Commission, which launched in November 2014 with a 5-year horizon to identify policy options to improve environmental and economic performance in Canada. From 2010-13, Chris held the David Dodge Chair in Monetary Policy at the C.D. Howe Institute, and for many years was a member of the Institute’s Monetary Policy Council. In 2009-10, Chris served as the Clifford Clark Visiting Economist at Finance Canada; in 2004-05 he served as Special Advisor to the Governor of the Bank of Canada.

Chris is an enthusiastic teacher and public communicator. In 2007 he was awarded the Noel Fieldhouse teaching prize at McGill.   

Chris received his B.A. (Honours) in economics in 1984 from the University of Victoria and his M.A. in economics from Queen’s University in 1985. He then moved to Cambridge, Massachusetts where he completed his Ph.D. in economics at M.I.T. in 1989. 

Please contact harinikapali@uvic.ca if you have questions about this event.

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