Pierre-Carl Michaud is a Professor of Economics at HEC Montreal and holder of the Jacques-Parizeau Research Chair in Economic Policy (cjp.hec.ca/en/). He is also Scientific Director of the Retirement and Savings Institute (rsi.hec.ca), Research Associate of the NBER and Fellow of CIRANO. He holds a Ph.D. in Economics from Tilburg University.

His research interest is in the study of labor supply, savings and health outcomes of households in the U.S. and Europe.

He joined IZA as a Research Affiliate in May 2003 and became a Research Fellow in July 2005.