Mathieu Perron-Dufour is an associate professor in the Département des sciences sociales at the Université du Québec en Outaouais, where he has been teaching for four years. Before that, he was a professor at John Jay College (City University of New York) and Dalhousie University, and also taught in China. He obtained his PhD in economics from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst and his dissertation was on the dynamics of international financial crises. Mathieu has written several peer-reviewed article on that topic, as well as other subjects pertaining to public policy, with a particular focus on income distribution. He sits on the board of the Institut de recherche et d’information socioéconomique and the editorial board of the journal Studies in Political Economy.