In the fall of 2024 Professor Dan Breznitz authored a special five-part series Prosperity’s Path, published in The Globe and Mail. The series explores the critical factors shaping Canada's prosperity and future economic growth, including pressing issues of innovation ecosystems, global competitiveness, sustainable development, and the role of policy in driving long-term economic success.

To dig deeper and to celebrate his work, Professor Breznitz will join Janice Stein, founding director of the Munk School of Global Affairs & Public Policy in conversation on January 15, 2025.

Whether you're an industry leader, policymaker, or someone interested in the future of Canada's economy, you won’t want to miss this exclusive conversation.

Prosperity’s Path, special to the Globe and Mail:

How Canada’s middle class got shafted (Sept. 19, 2024)

How not to run a country: Government ineptitude and Canada’s economic malaise (Sept. 28, 2024)

We don’t need no education: How Canada’s broken university system holds us back (Oct. 4, 2024)

To fix Canada’s economic problems, we need a real strategy (Oct. 12, 2024)

As we build a vision of Canada, let’s make sure it has more Canada in it (Oct. 19, 2024)

About the speaker:

Dan Breznitz has been elected as a University Professor of the University of Toronto, and is the Munk Chair of Innovation Studies at the Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy with a cross-appointment in the Department of Political Science of the University of Toronto, where he is also the Co-Director of the Innovation Policy Lab and a Senior Fellow of Massey College. In addition, he is a Fellow of the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research (CIFAR) where he co-founded and co-directs the program on Innovation, Equity and the Future of Prosperity.

Professor Breznitz is known worldwide as an expert on rapid-innovation-based industries and their globalization, as well as for his pioneering research on the distributional impact of innovation policies. He has been a member of several boards, and has served as an advisor on science, technology, and innovation policies to multinational corporations, governments, and international organizations. He served as the Clifford Clarke Economist of the Canadian Department of Finance, responsible for new economic thinking and the restructuring of the Canadian economy. He was awarded multiple scholarly and public policy awards including the GTRC 75th Anniversary Innovation Award for Public Service, Leadership, and Policy and a Sloan Industry Studies Fellow. Before joining the Munk School, Breznitz spent eight years in Georgia Institute of Technology (Georgia Tech) as a professor in the Scheller College of Business, the Sam Nunn School of International Affairs, and the School of Public Policy. In an earlier life he founded and served as a CEO of a small software company.