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Jean Boivin
Jean Boivin is a Canadian economist and Head of the BlackRock Investment Institute after previously serving as Global Head of Research, having joined in 2014.

Before joining BlackRock, he was Canada's Finance Deputy serving as the country's representative to the G7, G20 and Financial Stability Board and was Deputy Governor of the Bank of Canada from 2010-2012.

Dr. Boivin, born in Chicoutimi, Quebec, had worked as an academic at Columbia University's Business School and at HEC Montreal. He completed his MA (1997) and PhD (2000) in economics at Princeton University. His PhD adviser was Ben Bernanke, then Chair of Princeton University's Department of Economics and later a member of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve and Chairman of the Federal Reserve.

Together they published a widely cited paper, Measuring the Effects of Monetary Policy: A Factor-Augmented Vector Autoregressive (FAVAR) Approach.

At the Institute, in August 2019, he co-authored a paper with Philipp Hildebrand and Stanley Fischer on the potential for monetary and fiscal policy to coordinate the response to the next downturn given low interest rates. The paper generated much media discussion and commentary about the role that helicopter money might play in the policy response to the next recession.

Dr. Boivin is reported to be in contention to succeed Stephen Poloz as Governor of the Bank of Canada.

He has appeared in the media frequently in his BlackRock role.