Aidan Hollis

Position: Professor, Department of Economics

Department: Faculty of Arts, University of Calgary

Dr. Aidan Hollis is Professor in Economics at the University of Calgary, and President of Incentives for Global Health, a US-based NGO focused on the development of the Health Impact Fund proposal. Hollis studied at Cambridge University and the University of Toronto, where he obtained a PhD in economics. His research focuses on innovation and competition in pharmaceutical markets, and he has published over fifty peer-reviewed articles and two books in a range of fields of economics. In 2003-4 he served as the T.D. MacDonald Chair in Industrial Economics at the Competition Bureau. He has provided expert reports and testimony in a variety of pharmaceutical-related cases in Federal, Appeals and Supreme Court cases in Canada, and has advised companies and governments. He served as a member of the WHO Guideline Development Group on Antimicrobial Use in Food Animals. In the last five years, he has made invited presentations at (among others) OECD, UNESCO, UN, World Bank, Harvard, Yale, Université Paris Descartes, and LSE.. is research is funded by CIHR, JPIAMR and European Research Council