A CIRANO Researcher and Fellow since 2016, Matthieu Chemin is Associate Professor in the Department of Economics at McGill University.

Holding a Ph.D. in Economics from the London School of Economics and Political Science, his research focuses on exploring the conditions conducive to economic growth and development, such as the quality of institutions (judicial system), infrastructure (electricity) and markets (credit, insurance, labour). He is particularly interested in small entrepreneurs in less developed countries. For his studies, he uses rigorous micro-econometric techniques on secondary data, or data collected by his field research team.

Baris Kaymak is Associate Professor of Economics and J.W. McConnell Chair of American Studies at the Université de Montréal.

A CIRANO Researcher and Fellow since 2007, Sonia Laszlo is Full Professor in the Department of Economics at McGill University.

Since September 2025, she is Associate Dean, Research and Equity, Diversity and Inclusion at the Faculty of Arts at McGill University.

Holding a Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Toronto, specializing in applied microeconomic analysis in economic development. Her current research is primarily focused on the microeconomics of social policies and their effects on women and women's economic empowerment.

She is co‐founder and an executive member of the Canadian Development Economics Study Group (CDESG), which groups both academic and policy development economists in Canada.

Tuba Tuncel is Assistant Professor in the Department of Applied Economics at HEC Montréal.

Holding a Ph.D. in Economics from the Toulouse School of Economics, her research interests are industrial organization and health economics.

Lars Vilhuber has an undergraduate degree in Economics from Universität Bonn, Germany, and a Ph.D. in Economics from Université de Montréal, Montreal, Canada. He has worked in both research and government. He has consulted with government and statistical agencies in Canada and the United States.

His interest in statistical disclosure limitation issues is a consequence of his other research interest: working with highly detailed longitudinally linked data to analyze the effects and causes of mass layoffs, worker mobility, and the dynamics of the local labor market.

He is presently on the faculty of the Department of Economics at Cornell University, a Senior Research Associate at the ILR School at Cornell University, Ithaca, Executive Director of ILR’s Labor Dynamics Institute, and affiliated with the U.S. Census Bureau (Center for Economic Studies, CES).

Over the years, he has also gained extensive expertise on the data needs of economists and other social scientists, having been involved in the creation and maintenance of several data systems designed with analysis, publication, replicability, and maintenance of large-scale code bases in mind.