Marcel Boyer (M.Sc. and Ph.D. in Economics, Carnegie-Mellon University; M.A. in Economics, Université de Montréal) holds the Bell Canada Chair in Industrial Economics in the Department of Economics at the Université de Montréal. He is also a C.D. Howe Scholar in Economic Policy at the C.D. Howe Institute, and a Fellow of CIRANO and CIREQ. He has been President of the Canadian Economics Association and President of the Canadian Society for Economic Science, Vice-President and Scientific Director, then President and CEO of CIRANO, member of the Board of Directors of the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER), of the National Statistics Council of Canada, of the Management Committee of Bell University Laboratories, of the Board of Directors of the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC), of the Board of Directors of the Institut de finance mathématique de Montréal (IFM2), and Chairman of the Board of the Réseau de Calcul et de Modélisation Mathématique (RCM2). He is currently a member of the Executive Committee of the Canadian Law Economics Association (CLEA) and a member of the Board of Directors of the Agence des partenariats public-privé du Québec (PPP-Q). Marcel Boyer has received several awards of excellence, including the Alexander Henderson Award (CMU 1971), the Endowment-for-the-future Distinguished Scholar Award (Univ. of Alberta 1988), the Prix Marcel-Dagenais (SCSE 1985), the Prix Marcel-Vincent (ACFAS 2002), and the Médaille Guillaume-Budé du Collège de France (2005). He is an elected member (1992) of the Royal Society of Canada (RSC - Les Académies des arts, des lettres et des sciences du Canada).
He is the author of over 190 scientific articles, public reports and scientific notebooks. His current research interests include: flexibility and real options; organizations, technology and strategic competition; incentives, incomplete information and uncertainty; and the economics of law. He has acted as an expert economist for many major corporations and government agencies, both in Canada and abroad, on subjects such as copyright, competition policy, wage negotiations, strategic investment evaluation and selection, contract disputes, development policies, municipal institutional reform, cost sharing and pricing of common infrastructure, public-private partnerships, risk management, deregulation, etc., which has led him to testify on several occasions before various committees and administrative tribunals