Prince Owusu is a Senior Economist with over 2 decades of economic forecasting and geopolitical analysis of the Canadian and global economies. He is in-charge of the United States, Canadian and Mexican economies, by providing macroeconomic and monetary policy views to guide the export credit agency’s business strategy.
In addition to the overall macro-views, he covers agrifood, seafood, fertilizer, and the lumber industries. He provides market intelligence to support EDC’s operational decisions in those sectors. Prince is also in-charge of developing, running, and maintaining the macroeconomic models used to generate the economic forecast and scenario analysis, making sure that EDC is well-prepared under different economic conditions to help Canadian exporters.
Prior to EDC, Prince spent 16 years with the Conference Board of Canada (the Board), covering the provincial economies. At the Board, Prince was in-charge of the provincial economic model, ensuring that the workhorse was well-maintained and new ones developed. In addition to forecasting responsibilities at the Board, Prince undertook several financed-research projects to assess the economic impact of natural disasters and infrastructure projects, as well as natural resources and international trade developments for businesses, provincial governments, and crown agencies.
Prince has been quoted in The Globe and Mail, Reuters and several medias in Atlantic and Western Canada.
