Leonard Waverman

Who is Leonard Waverman?

Dr. Leonard Waverman is dean of the DeGroote School of Business at McMaster University. He was formerly dean of the Haskayne School of Business at the University of Calgary.

With Lars Hendrik Röller, Dr. Waverman published the influential "Telecommunications Infrastructure and Economic Development". His analysis of the impacts of mobile phone rollout on economic growth in Africa was the cover page article of the March 12, 2005, issue of The Economist and a special report in 2009.

His thesis at MIT, "Natural Gas and National Policy: a Linear Programming Model of North American Natural Gas Flows," was published by the University of Toronto Press in 1973.

Dr. Waverman is a citizen of both France and Canada. He has received the honour of Chevalier dans l'Ordre des Palmes Academiques from the Government of France.