Margaret Slade

Margaret SladeMargaret Slade is a Professor of Economics Emeritus at the Universities of British Columbia in Canada and Warwick in the UK. She has published scholarly articles in numerous academic journals, including Econometrica, the Review of Economic Studies, and the Quarterly Journal of Economics, and has served in an editorial capacity for a number of scholarly journals. She is a Distinguished Research Fellow of both the American and the Canadian Economics Associations. She received the Distinguished Service Award from the Industrial Organization Society, was awarded an Honorary Doctorate from the Helsinki School of Economics, and was President of the European Association for Research in Industrial Economics.

Margaret received a bachelor’s degree from Vassar College and a master’s degree from the University of California, Berkeley, both in mathematics. She worked as a mathematician for Shell Development in California, the Department of Scientific and Industrial Research in New Zealand, and the US Geological Survey in California and Washington, DC before obtaining a PhD in economics from the George Washington University. Her earlier involvement with the energy and mining sectors spurred her interest in commodities. She has assessed pricing, trading, and investment in fuel and nonfuel minerals as well as how market structure affects those markets