Niels Veldhuis

Niels Veldhuis is a Canadian economist who has been serving as the president of the Fraser Institute since 2012.

Background

Veldhuis graduated from South Delta Secondary School in Tsawwassen, British Columbia, in 1994. He graduated from Simon Fraser University with a joint major in business and economics in 1999. He completed his master's degree in economics at the same university immediately afterwards.

Career

After graduating from university, Veldhuis became an economics lecturer at Kwantlen Polytechnic University.

Fraser Institute

In 2002 he was hired for a research position at the Fraser Institute, a free market and libertarian-conservative think tank. Veldhuis still continued lecturing for several years until he resigned entirely to devote more time to the think tank's work. In the spring of 2012, Veldhuis became president of the institute.

Other work

Veldhuis has frequently appeared on committees of both the House of Commons and Senate, providing input on government economic policy. In 2011, Veldhuis hosted a discussion between former American presidents Bill Clinton and George W. Bush at the Surrey Economic Forum.

Published works

Tax Facts 13 (2003) Tax Facts 14 (2006) Saskatchewan Prosperity: Building on Success (2009) The Canadian Century: Moving Out of America's Shadow (2010) Learning from the Past: How Canadian Fiscal Policies of the 1990s Can Be Applied Today (2011)