Susan Howson (economist)
Susan Kyle Howson (born October 21, 1945) is a British economist, currently professor emeritus of economics at the University of Toronto in Canada. Born in London, Howson received her Ph.D. in economics from the University of Cambridge in 1975, as well as a B.A./M.Sc. from the London School of Economics in 1967/1969. After graduating, she worked as a research economist in the International Division of the Bank of England. She is a scholar of macroeconomics and economic history, having written numerous articles and books on the topics. She is the author of a biography of the economist  Lionel Robbins, as well as a four-volume series on the collected works of James Meade. She is the recipient of the T.S. Ashton Prize from the Economic History Society (1973) and the Connaught Senior Research Fellowships in the Social Sciences (2004, 2007). In 2019, she was named a distinguished fellow of the History of Economics Society. Howson is an emeritus professor of economics at the University of Toronto and a fellow of Trinity College Toronto, Canada.