Stephen Tapp is the CEO and chief economist at the Centre for the Study of Living Standards. He previously served as the chief economist and senior vice-president of research, data and analytics at the Canadian Chamber of Commerce, where he launched and managed the Business Data Lab.

Stephen is the president of the Canadian Association for Business Economics and a member of the Canadian Statistics Advisory Council. He has 25 years of diverse experience at many of Canada’s top economic organizations, including Export Development Canada, where he served as deputy chief economist; the Bank of Canada; the Parliamentary Budget Office; and Finance Canada. He has also worked with academia and think tanks, such as the Institute for Research on Public Policy and the C.D. Howe Institute.