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{{Short description|Governor of the Bank of Canada from 2001 to 2008}}
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| name                = David A. Dodge
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| order               = 7th
| office              = Governor of the Bank of Canada
| predecessor         = [[Gordon Thiessen]]
| successor           = [[Mark Carney]]
| term_start          = February 1, 2001
| term_end            = January 31, 2008
| appointed           = [[26th Canadian Ministry|Chrétien Ministry]]
| office2             = [[Deputy minister (Canada)|Deputy Minister]] of [[Health Canada|Health]]
| term_start2         = July 1, 1998
| term_end2           = January 5, 2001
| minister2           = [[Allan Rock]]
| predecessor2        = Michèle Jean
| successor2          = Ian Green
| office3             = [[Deputy minister (Canada)|Deputy Minister]] of [[Department of Finance Canada|Finance]]
| term_start3         = August 1, 1992
| term_end3           = July 13, 1997
| minister3           = {{plainlist|
* [[Don Mazankowski]]
* [[Gilles Loiselle]]
* [[Paul Martin]]
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| predecessor3        = Fred Gorbet
| successor3          = C. Scott Clark
| birth_date          = {{birth date and age|1943|06|8}}
| birth_place         = [[Toronto]], [[Ontario]]
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* [[Queen's University at Kingston|Queen's University]] (B.A.)
* [[Princeton University]] (Ph.D.)
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'''David Allison Dodge''' {{post-nominals|country=CAN|OC|FRSC}} (born June 8, 1943) is a Canadian [[economist]].<ref name=":1">{{Cite news |date=2007-04-27 |title=The nerve of David Dodge |language=en-CA |work=The Toronto Star |url=https://www.thestar.com/news/2007/04/27/the_nerve_of_david_dodge.html |access-date=2022-05-09 |issn=0319-0781}}</ref> He served as the seventh [[governor of the Bank of Canada]] from 2001 to 2008.<ref name=":2">{{Cite web |title=David Dodge |url=https://www.bankofcanada.ca/profile/david-dodge/ |access-date=2022-05-09 |website=www.bankofcanada.ca |language=en-US}}</ref>

==Early life==

Dodge was born in [[Toronto]], [[Ontario]], Canada in 1943.<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=X4cOAQAAMAAJ&q=%22DODGE,+David+A.,+O.C.,+B.A.,%22|title = The Canadian Who's who|year = 1983| publisher=University of Toronto Press |isbn = 9780802040923}}</ref> He attended [[Ridley College (Ontario)|Ridley College]], a private boarding school in [[St. Catharines, Ontario|St. Catharines]] (and second alumnus to become Bank Governor), and graduated from [[Queen's University at Kingston|Queen's University]] with an honours degree in [[economics]]. He received his [[Doctor of Philosophy|Ph.D]] in economics from [[Princeton University]] in 1972 after completing a doctoral dissertation titled "The structure of earnings of Canadian accountants, engineers and scientists and the implications for returns to investment in university education."<ref>{{Cite book|last=Dodge|first=David A.|url=https://catalog.princeton.edu/catalog/3217510|title=The structure of earnings of Canadian accountants, engineers and scientists and the implications for returns to investment in university education|date=1972|language=English}}</ref>

==Career==

He was Assistant [[Professor]] of [[Economics]] at [[Queen's University, Kingston|Queen's University]], Associate Professor of [[Canadians|Canadian]] Studies and [[International economics|International Economics]] at the School of Advanced International Studies at [[Johns Hopkins University]], Senior Fellow in the Faculty of Commerce at the [[University of British Columbia]], and visiting professor in the Department of Economics at [[Simon Fraser University]]. He has also served as Director of the International Economics Program of the Institute for Research on Public Policy.

=== Canadian Politics ===
Dodge served in the senior ranks of the Canadian federal government from 1992 to January 2001—one month before his appointment as Governor of the Bank of Canada.<ref name=":1" />

==== Deputy Minister of Finance ====
He was appointed Deputy [[Minister of Finance (Canada)|Minister of Finance]] in 1992. In the 1996 book ''Double Vision'', [[Edward Greenspon]] and Anthony Wilson-Smith describe in detail the role which Dodge played in reviving Canada's economy by working closely with Finance Minister [[Paul Martin]] to eliminate the federal budget's deficit spending.<ref>''Double Vision: The Inside Story of the Liberals in Power'', by [[Edward Greenspon]] and Anthony Wilson-Smith, Toronto 1996, Doubleday Canada publishers.</ref>

==== Deputy Minister of Health ====
In 1998, Dodge was appointed the Deputy [[Minister of Health (Canada)|Minister of Health]]. While Deputy, Dodge's role in founding the Winnipeg [[National Microbiology Laboratory]] was commended as critically important by laboratory director-general [[Frank Plummer]].<ref>Plummer, "Failures in Public Health Science," in Alex Benay (ed.) ''Canadian Failures: Stories of Building Toward Success'' (Dundurn Press, 2017.)</ref>

=== Bank of Canada ===
In 2001, Dodge was appointed the Governor of the [[Bank of Canada]].<ref name=":2" /> His appointment was controversial as the Bank of Canada traditionally promotes from within, helping to avoid the perception of politicizing of the central bank.<ref name=":0">{{Cite news |last=Scoffield |first=Heather |date=2007-10-04 |title=New Bank of Canada governor named |language=en-CA |work=The Globe and Mail |url=https://www.theglobeandmail.com/report-on-business/new-bank-of-canada-governor-named/article1083614/ |access-date=2022-05-08}}</ref> During Dodge's term, annual inflation stayed close to the Bank of Canada's target of 2 percent, and the Canadian economy avoided any recessions.<ref name=":0" /> In 2008, Dodge retired from the Bank of Canada, and was replaced by [[Mark Carney]].<ref name=":0" />

Following his exit from the Bank, Dodge joined the Canadian law firm [[Bennett Jones]] as a senior advisor.<ref>[http://www.mondaq.com/content/pr_article.asp?pr_id=2242 Mondaq Press Release - Bennett Jones Welcomes David Dodge As Senior Advisor]</ref>

=== Chancellor of Queen's University ===
Dodge was elected as the 13th [[Chancellor (education)|chancellor]] of [[Queen's University at Kingston|Queen's University]] on May 2, 2008, succeeding [[A. Charles Baillie]]. The appointment was effective July 1, 2008, though Dodge was only officially installed later that year, on October 30. As his first three-year term drew to a close, Dodge's re-appointment was unanimously endorsed by the Queen's University Council, and Dodge served until his retirement at the end of his second-term on June 30, 2014. He was subsequently appointed chancellor emeritus by the University Council, an honorary title he still holds today.<ref>[http://www.queensu.ca/encyclopedia/d/dodgedavid.html Queen's Encyclopedia - Dodge, David Allison] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140519003747/http://www.queensu.ca/encyclopedia/d/dodgedavid.html |date=2014-05-19 }}</ref>

Dodge was elected to the [[Royal Society of Canada]] in October 2009.

He was made an Officer of the [[Order of Canada]] in 2007.<ref>{{Cite web |last=General |first=Office of the Secretary to the Governor |title=Dr. David A. Dodge |url=https://www.gg.ca/en/honours/recipients/146-9219 |access-date=2022-05-09 |website=The Governor General of Canada}}</ref>

==References==
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==Further reading==
* ''Double Vision: The Inside Story of the Liberals in Power'', by [[Edward Greenspon]] and Anthony Wilson-Smith, Toronto 1996, Doubleday Canada publishers, {{ISBN|0-385-25613-2}}.

==External links==
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* [https://web.archive.org/web/20051223070236/http://www.bankofcanada.ca/en/bios/dodge.html Bank of Canada – Biography of David A. Dodge]

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