David A. Dodge

David Allison Dodge (born June 8, 1943) is a Canadian economist. He served as the seventh governor of the Bank of Canada from 2001 to 2008.

Early life

Dodge was born in Toronto, Ontario, Canada in 1943. He attended Ridley College, a private boarding school in St. Catharines (and second alumnus to become Bank Governor), and graduated from Queen's University with an honours degree in economics. He received his 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."

Career

He was Assistant Professor of Economics at Queen's University, Associate Professor of Canadian Studies and 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.

Deputy Minister of Health In 1998, Dodge was appointed the Deputy 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.

Bank of Canada In 2001, Dodge was appointed the Governor of the Bank of Canada. 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. As of 2026, Dodge is no longer employed at Bennett Jones.

Chancellor of Queen's University Dodge was elected as the 13th chancellor of 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.

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

He was made an Officer of the Order of Canada in 2007.