Executive Vice President & Chief Economist
Fred Morley is Executive Vice President and Chief Economist of the Greater Halifax Partnership. He has been with the Partnership since May 2002. The Greater Halifax Partnership is an investor-funded organization focused on retaining and expanding existing business, and bringing new investment to Greater Halifax. In this role, Fred leads the team that developed Halifax’s award winning approach to business retention and expansion, managed and wrote Halifax’s first economic strategy, initiated the community’s first immigration program, and worked to attract many high profile new investors.
Prior to this, Mr. Morley was Senior Manager, Business Retention and Expansion and Research at Nova Scotia Business Inc. In this role he was responsible for NSBI’s regional operations along with all research and government relations activities of the organization. He was a member of the transition team that created NSBI and was the first manager hired by the new organization.
Prior to this he was Director of the Marketing and Research Branch of Nova Scotia Economic Development, where he was responsible for the overall strategic direction for investment and trade activities. In this position he was one of the developers and authors of the Province’s first economic plan in more than 10 years, “Opportunities for Prosperity” Under Mr. Morley’s leadership, the marketing and research group received 11 national and international marketing awards in 3 years.
Mr. Morley joined the Government of Nova Scotia as a Senior Economic Advisor in mid-1995. Prior to this, Fred was Senior Policy Analyst and Research Coordinator for the Atlantic Provinces Economic Council where he worked for 15 years. Mr. Morley also taught for nine years in the Economics Department of Saint Mary’s University.
Mr. Morley is the author of over 70 articles on economic development and has presented his views to hundreds of organizations, companies, and government groups
Mr. Morley has undergraduate degrees in chemistry and economics from Dalhousie University. Fred did his graduate work in economics and economic development issues at Dalhousie and Saint Mary’s University.
In August 2008 Mr. Morley was appointed by the Canadian Minister of Industry to the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council. SSHRC is the federal funding body for social sciences and humanities research in Canada and reports to Parliament through the Minister.
Fred serves on the Boards of the International Economic Development Council in Washington DC, the Acadia Centre for Small Business & Entrepreneurship, the Saint Mary’s Business Development Centre. He also chairs the Acadia Centre for Social and Business Entrepreneurship. Mr. Morley is past president of Business Retention Expansion International and past-president of the Atlantic Association of Applied Economists.
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