Angella MacEwen is the Senior Economist at CUPE, where her focus is on the impacts of social policy and broader economic trends for workers, especially climate policy and international trade and investment treaties. Angella is currently the co-chair of the Trade Justice Network and on the steering committee for the Green Economy Network. She’s also a policy fellow with the Broadbent Institute and sits on the steering committee of the Progressive Economics Forum.

Before studying economics Angella spent 14 years in the naval reserves, working in various full time and part-time positions across Canada. She holds a Masters in Economics from Dalhousie University, and an undergraduate degree in International Development Studies from Saint Mary’s University in Halifax.