Dr. Victoria Barham is a Faculty member of the Department of Economics at the University of Ottawa, Canada, where she has taught since 1993.  She earned her MA at the University of Toronto (1986), and received her doctorate from CORE at the Université Catholique de Louvain (1992) and was a Visiting Professor at Queen’s University (1992-1993).

Her research interests include the theory of club goods, the economics of philanthropy, and economics of the family, physician payment, and health inequality.  She is also interested in the economics of federalism, and more particularly in financial arrangements between national and aboriginal governments.  Her research has been published in journals such as the European Economic Review, Journal of Public Economics, Journal of Legal Studies, and Canadian Public Policy.  She also contributed to the work of the Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples.

Dr. Barham will advance the partnership between ASE and the University of Ottawa and other Canadian organizations.