Randall Morck is the most cited economist in Canada, his research referenced almost 53,000 times in other researchers’ work. From a blue-collar Alberta family, he received a scholarship to attend Yale University where he graduated summa cum laude with a BSc in Honors Applied Mathematics and in Economics, as well as an M.A. in Economics. After earning a PhD in Economics from Harvard in 1986, he joined the University of Alberta, which appointed him Stephen Jarislowsky Distinguished Professor of Finance. He returns to both his almae matres, most recently as Mackenzie King Visiting Professor at Harvard and as Schoen Visiting Professor at Yale. Prof. Morck is a Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and a Senior Fellow at the Asian Bureau of Finance and Economics Research in Singapore. In 2018, he was awarded a Yangtse-Professorship, the highest academic honor in China, where he is affiliated with the Wenlan School of Economics. In August 2023, the University of Montreal and HEC Montreal awarded him an honorary doctorate for contributions to corporate governance and other areas of finance research. He has advised governments, central banks, and multilateral institutions on these issues.
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