The Taylor Prize is awarded annually to a researcher whose work has made an important contribution to policy debates relevant to building a more socially-just Canada.
The recipient of this year’s Taylor Prize is Sheila Block.
This award celebrates Sheila’s contributions as a longtime economist at the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives, where her work applied an intersectional approach to labour markets, public finance, and inequality.
For more than three decades, Sheila equipped progressive movements with the policy analysis and ideas needed to improve the lives of Canadians.
She spent her career championing ordinary Canadians, centring people in her transformative economic work.
A generous and prolific public intellectual, Sheila continues to share her economic expertise through her writing, speaking engagements, and advising.
Throughout her career Sheila also worked as both a political advisor and a public servant in the Ontario government before cementing her role as an economist in the labour movement.
Sheila has an Honours B.A. in Economics from the University of British Columbia and a MA in Economics from the University of Toronto.