Dalhousie University
Biographical Sketch: Bonnie-Jeanne MacDonald is a Gold Medalist in Actuarial Science from the University of Western Ontario (2001), a Fellow of the Society of Actuaries, a PhD in Actuarial Mathematics at Heriot-Watt University in Edinburgh, Scotland, a Postdoctoral Fellow in Actuarial Sciences at the University of Waterloo, Canada, and she currently occupies a Postdoctoral Fellowship position in Economics at Dalhousie University in Halifax, Canada.
In addition to the world of academia, she has spent a number of years in the industry of pension consulting and life insurance.
Her research has focused on the topic of financial security for an aging population from a variety of angles. She has published six papers in refereed journals and has led eight teams of researchers as the primary investigator in grant-funded projects. She has served as an expert consultant to government and industry, as well as on expert task forces. Her work on retirement financial savings drawdown and retirement income adequacy was featured twice in Linda Stern’s column “Stern Advice” in Reuters.
In 2011, she was selected as one of the top 'young economists' worldwide and sponsored by the Canadian government to attend the Nobel Laureates Meeting in Economic Sciences in Lindau, Germany - a comprehensive program where 18 Economic Laureates and other young economists from 65 countries met at Lindau to "exchange ideas, discuss the state of their discipline and build international networks".
Her research has attracted academic, media, professional, government, as well as industry attention, and she has been a regularly invited guest speaker for industry professionals, public policy makers and university academics.