Philip Oreopoulos

Philip Oreopoulos is Professor of Economics and Public Policy at the University of Toronto. He is a Research Associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research and Research Fellow at the Canadian Institute For Advanced Research. He has held previous visiting appointments at Harvard and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and is an editor at the Journal of Labor Economics. Philip's current work focuses on education policy. He often examines this field by initiating and implementing large-scale field experiments, with the goal of producing convincing evidence for public policy decisions.

Philip serves as Co-Chair of J-PAL's Education sector and Co-Chair of the Improving Education Outcomes in North America portfolio. He has also served on the review boards of J-PAL North America's Social Policy Research Initiative and Education, Technology, and and Opportunity Initiative.

Philip received his PhD from the University of California, at Berkeley and his MA from the University of British Columbia.