Armine Yalnizyan is the Atkinson Foundation’s Fellow on the Future of Workers, and a regular contributing columnist to the Toronto Star’s business section.  She served as Senior Economic Policy Advisor for the Deputy Minister at Employment and Social Development Canada from 2018 to 2019, and served on Ministers Freeland and Fortier’s Task Group on Women In The Economy in 2020 and 2021. She helped lead the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives’ Inequality Project from 2008 to 2017, and provided weekly business commentaries on CBC radio and CBC TV from 2011 to 2018. She is past President of the Canadian Association for Business Economics.