Michael Walker (economist)

Michael Angus Walker (born 1945, in Corner Brook, Newfoundland) is a Canadian economist.

Under his leadership, a series of conferences were started in the mid-1980s to measure economic freedom and rank countries accordingly.

A prominent spokesman in the media for free market causes, he founded the Fraser Institute in 1974.

He was its executive director until 2005, and remains a Senior Fellow.

In 2010 he received an honorary doctorate degree from Universidad Francisco Marroquín.