He is the founder of the Progressive Economics Forum and director of the Centre for Future Work, firstly in Canberra, Australia and in the namesake institution in Vancouver, Canada since 2024.
Stanford is also an author of a column for the Canadian newspaper The Globe and Mail.
Stanford attended the New School for Social Research and obtained a PhD in 1995, also in economics.
In 1994, Stanford became an economist at the trade union Unifor, where he worked until 2015 and was also the Director of Economic, Social and Sectoral Policy.
[1] In 2016 Stanford relocated to Australia, where he is the founding director of the Centre for the Future of Work, a non-partisan research organization funded by the public policy think tanks, Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives and The Australia Institute.