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The Master of Financial Economics (MFE) is a world-class limited-enrollment professional program offered by the University of Toronto’s Department of Economics in collaboration with the Rotman School of Management. It provides a broad understanding of financial theory and the economics framework upon which that theory is based. Students are equipped with the knowledge and tools required to build successful careers in finance through both the classroom and work experience in the financial services sector.
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MFE Berkowitz Lecture
The 2025 Annual Berkowitz Lecture, What have we learned from Central Bank responses to COVID?, was delivered by Carolyn A. Wilkins, a global financial leader and visiting Princeton lecturer.
Carolyn A. Wilkins is a visiting senior research scholar at Princeton University’s Griswold Center for Economic Policy Studies, where she is a lecturer in the Department of Economics. Wilkins is also an external member of the Financial Policy Committee at the Bank of England, and serves on the board of directors of Canada’s Intact Financial Corporation, a company that provides property and casualty insurance in Canada and specialty insurance in North America and Europe. Wilkins is currently co-leading an independent review of the Riksbank, and co-led the review of the Reserve Bank of Australia in 2022-23. She is a mentor to fintech entrepreneurs at the Creative Destruction Lab (HEC), and co-leads the Bretton Woods Committee’s Digital Finance Project Team. Wilkins worked for twenty years at the Bank of Canada, and served as Senior Deputy Governor from 2014 to 2020. She has contributed to international financial regulation, including as a member of the Financial Stability Board and the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision, and as the Bank’s Deputy to the G20 and G7. Wilkins earned her MA from the University of Western Ontario and her BA from Wilfrid Laurier University, both in economics. She received an Honorary Doctorate from Wilfrid Laurier University in 2022.
The Berkowitz Lecture Series is presented by the Master of Financial Economics (MFE) Program in memory of Michael Berkowitz (1946 – 2004), former Department of Economics Chair and founder of the Master of Financial Economics program.
MFE Alumni Association
We would like to welcome the new leadership of the MFE Alumni Association (MFEAA): President Martina Irinkov, Class of 2012, and Chair Nadine St. Pierre, Class of 2017. Joining them in the Board of Directors are Olivier Ruta (Class of 2007) as Director of Alumni Relations, Jonathan Guilford (Class of 2011) as Director of Program Relations, and Karin Peride Hauptricht (Class of 2023) as Director of Student Relations. We look forward to working with all of you!
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We are accepting donations to the MFE Alumni & Friends Admissions Scholarship! This scholarship will be awarded to an incoming Master of Financial Economics student in the Department of Economics based on academic merit. Make a gift now.
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Contact Us
Admissions: mfe.admissions@utoronto.ca
Program: mfe@utoronto.ca
MFE Student Association: mfesa@utoronto.ca