Dr. Nicole M. Fortin is currently a Professor of Economics at the University of British Columbia, where she moved to in 1999 after teaching for ten years at the Université de Montréal. She has served as Academic Director of the BC Interuniversity research data centre (2001-03) and has resumed these functions as co-director in 2006. Nicole Fortin’s research interests in the area of labour economics revolve around two themes: labour market institutions, public policies, including higher education policies, and wage inequality on the one hand, and gender equality policies and the economic progress of women, on the other. Her contributions in applied econometrics comprise a widely used reweighing methodology and a novel unconditional quintile regression methodology.