Education
University of British Columbia.
economist university professor
University of British Columbia.
He is a professor of economics at the University of Guelph, and a senior fellow of the Fraser Institute. He has authored works about climate change issues, including co-authoring the book Taken By Storm: The Troubled Science, Policy and Politics of Global Warming in 2003. McKitrick gained his doctorate in economics in 1996 from the University of British Columbia, and in the same year was appointed Assistant Professor in the Department of Economics at the University of Guelph, Ontario.
In 2001 he received an Associate Professorship and has been a full Professor since December 2008.
He has also been a Senior Fellow of the Fraser Institute since 2002. McKitrick was chair of the academic advisory council of the Global Warming Policy Foundation (GWPF) in from December 2014 to December 2015.
The GWPF is a United-Kingdom-based think tank that promotes climate-change denial. and warns against the "extremely damaging and harmful policies" proposed by governments to mitigate anthropogenic global warming.
He is a member of the academic advisory boards of the John Deutsch Institute, the Global Warming Policy Foundation, and the Cornwall Alliance for the Stewardship of Creation.