David Campbell
Fellow
David Campbell is the President of Jupia Consultants Inc., an economic development consulting and research firm based in New Brunswick. David has more than 30 years of experience as a consultant working with industry, not-for-profit organizations and governments across Canada with a specific focus on Atlantic Canada. In recent years he has been involved in some of the most important regional development opportunities including large scale energy projects, port and airport development, workforce planning, cluster growth, export market development and new economic opportunities identification. He also has become one of the leading providers of economic impact assessments in Atlantic Canada.
From 2015 to 2017, he was chief economist with the government of New Brunswick. In that role, he led the development of economic policy, economic development strategy and people attraction efforts for the provincial government.
In addition to co-authoring Towards Prosperity: The Transformation of Atlantic Canada’s Economy (2025), David writes the It’s the Economy, Stupid! Substack and co-hosts the Insights podcast with Don Mills and David Campbell. He has an active following on social media, with his LinkedIn content reaching over 1.4 million impressions in the past 12 months (as of December 2025). He was a long-time columnist with Brunswick News (2005-2024) and has been a contributing writer to multiple other publications including The Globe and Mail and Atlantic Business magazine. David is frequently asked to be the keynote speaker at industry events and conferences across the region.
David is the chair of the board of the Multicultural Agency of the Greater Moncton Area (MAGMA), past chair of the board of the United Way of Greater Moncton and a member of the Crandall University board of governors. He has been involved with over a dozen other community organizations over his three-decade career.
He formerly was a research fellow at the Donald J. Savoie Institute at the Université de Moncton, and he has collaborated with the Public Policy Forum, Wallace McCain Institute and a number of other similar organizations. He also teaches an annual course on Energy Economics as part of the University of New Brunswick Saint John Energy Fundamentals for Leaders program.
He lives in Cocagne, New Brunswick with his wife Adriana.
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