John HELLIWELL Award in Economics

Award descriptionAwards totalling $1,700 have been made available through an endowment established by friends, family and colleagues in honour of Dr. John F. Helliwell (B.Com. 1959), along with matching funds from the Faculty of Arts, for outstanding graduate students in the Vancouver School of Economics. Preference will be given to students who demonstrate an interest in focusing their studies on topics related to happiness and well-being. Dr. Helliwell is a Canadian economist and Professor Emeritus of Economics at UBC. After graduating from UBC, he was a Rhodes Scholar at the University of Oxford, where he completed a B.A. in Philosophy, Politics and Economics and a Doctor of Philosophy in Economics. Dr. Helliwell has been with the Vancouver School of Economics since 1967 and was also the Mackenzie King Visiting Professor at Harvard from 1991-1994. He was one of the three founding editors of the World Happiness Report in 2012, and still continues this involvement. He is a Distinguished Fellow of the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research and co-directed its program on "Social Interactions, Identity and Well-Being" from 2006-2017. Dr. Helliwell was elected to the Royal Society of Canada in 1978 and appointed an Officer of the Order of Canada in 1987. The awards are made on the recommendation of the Vancouver School of Economics, in consultation with the Faculty of Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies.