Brett House

Brett House is professor of professional practice at Columbia Business School and senior fellow with the Munk School of Global Affairs & Public Policy and Massey College at the University of Toronto.

Brett is an internationally renowned economic thinker with special expertise in international finance, macroeconomics, trade, emerging markets and international development. He has taught at Oxford University, McGill University and the University of Cape Town, and has held research roles at Columbia University and Massey College at the University of Toronto.

From 2016 to 2022, Brett was vice-president and deputy chief economist at Scotiabank. Before that, he was chief economist at Alignvest Investment Management in Toronto and global strategist at Woodbine Capital Advisors.

Earlier in his career, he served as principal advisor in the executive office of the United Nations Secretary-General and as an economist at the International Monetary Fund. He cut his teeth in financial markets at Goldman Sachs International in London and at the World Bank in Washington, D.C. He sits on the boards of the Canadian Association for Business Economics and The 519, Toronto’s municipal organization dedicated to advocacy for the inclusion of 2SLGBTQ+ communities.

Brett’s work has been recognized with Start Proud’s 2018 Professional Leader Award, the 2015 Good Citizen Award from his hometown of Lincoln, Ont., and the 2014 Québec Notable Award in Finance. He has also been named a Young Global Leader by the World Economic Forum (Davos) and one of 100 top global LGBTQ+ executives by INvolve & Yahoo Finance. Brett is also a life fellow of the Royal Society of Arts.

He holds a bachelor’s degree in economics from Queen’s University and a master’s degree in economics from the University of Oxford, where he was a Rhodes Scholar. He also holds the ICD.D designation issued by the Institute of Corporate Directors.

Connect with Brett on LinkedIn.