The Canadian Council on Social Development is pleased to announce that Andrew Jackson will join the organization as research director, starting June 12. Mr. Jackson comes to the CCSD after 11 years as a senior economist with the Canadian Labour Congress (CLC). At the CLC, he was responsible for research on issues of employment, fiscal and monetary policies, taxation and international economics. During his tenure there, he worked with government task forces examining training, taxation, working-time and workplace issues, and was active in the research work of the Trade Union Advisory Committee to the OECD.

Mr. Jackson is is a widely respected labour economist and has been a regular media commentator on employment and social policy issues. He is the co-author of three books, including the recently published Falling Behind: The State of Working Canada 2000, an analysis of key employment, income and social policy trends in the 1990s. He has also published numerous papers in academic journals and books, and has been a frequent speaker at policy conferences and before Parliamentary Committees.

Mr. Jackson studied at the London School of Economics and Political Science (BSc. and MSc., Econ.) and at the University of British Columbia (Doctoral studies in Canadian Political Economy). He has worked as a college teacher and as a program officer with the Canadian Labour Market and Productivity Centre.

Mr. Jackson has been an active volunteer in the social policy community, serving on the Boards of the Social Planning Council of Ottawa-Carleton and the Canadian Council on Social Development. In 1999, he served on the Ottawa-Carleton Regional Chair's Task Force on Employment.

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