Eugene Beaulieu is an Associate Professor in the Department of Economics at the University of Calgary. Mr. Beaulieu joined the department after completing his Ph.D. at Columbia University in New York City in 1997. Mr. Beaulieu's research examines the political economy and distributional consequences of international trade policy in Canada and the United States. He was awarded the 1998 Petro-Canada Young Innovators Award to study the impact of CUSTA and NAFTA on closures of manufacuring plants in the United States and Canada. More recently, Mr. Beaulieu was awarded a three-year SSHRC grant to conduct research on the history of the political economy of Canada's trade policy. Mr. Beaulieu held the 2003 Killam Resident Scholar and sits on the Academic Advisory Council to the Deputy Minister of International Trade in the Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade for the Government of Canada.