Alicia Macdonald

		Alicia Macdonald Senior Economist

Alicia Macdonald is responsible for the Conference Board’s inflation forecast, demographic projections and the outlook for British Columbia. Alicia joined the Conference Board in 2004 after working at the Bank of Canada’s regional office in Vancouver. Alicia has worked on a wide range of research projects including constructing a regional forecasting model, projecting long-term labour shortages and a number of economic impact analyses. In the past, Alicia was also responsible for Canadian labour markets, housing markets, consumer expenditures and the Consumer Confidence survey.

Alicia has an MA in economics from the University of Victoria and an Honours Bachelor of Commerce degree in finance from Lakehead University.