Walter Erwin Diewert (born 1941) is a Canadian economist.
He is also a Vice President of the Society for Economic Measurement (SEM).
He is one of the world's leading economists dealing with complex empirical issues related to the measurement of price indexes and productivity.
[3] In 2005, he received the Shiskin Memorial Award for Economic Statistics for his contributions to index number theory.
[4] In 2008, he was honored as a Distinguished Fellow of the American Economic Association.