Career
He was formerly dean of the Haskayne School of Business at the University of Calgary. With Lars Hendrik Röller, Doctor Waverman published the influential "Telecommunications Infrastructure and Economic Development" (The American Economic Review, September 2001). His analysis of the impacts of mobile phone rollout on economic growth in Africa was the cover page article of the March 12, 2005, issue of The Economist and a special report in 2009.
His thesis at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, "Natural Gas and National Policy: a Linear Programming Model of North American Natural Gas Flows," was published by the University of Toronto Press in 1973.
Doctor Waverman is a citizen of both France and Canada. He has received the honour of Chevalier dans l"Ordre des Palmes Academiques from the Government of France.
