Emmanuelle Piérard is the Director of the Arts and Business Program at the University of Waterloo, an associate professor in the Department of Economics , a fellow of the Rimini Centre for Economic Analysis and an associate of the Canadian Centre for Health Economics. Her research areas are in health economics and in applied econometrics.  Specifically, she is interested in how business cycles and the health care system, both health care inputs and wait times, affect the health of individuals and their use of health care. She obtained her MA and PhD in economics from McMaster University and her BSc Sciences Économiques from Université du Québec à Montréal.