Kevin Skerrett (He/Him)

Director, Adjunct Research Professor

• M.A. Political Economy (Carleton)
• 1504 Dunton Tower, Carleton University
• 1125 Colonel By Drive, Ottawa, ON, K1S 5B6
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After graduating with an MA from Carleton’s Institute of Political Economy, Kevin spent 30 years as a trade union researcher specializing in pensions. His involvement in pension plan governance, including investment issues, led to an ongoing interest in the role that large pension funds, and private finance in general, is laying in contemporary capitalism. In 2023 Kevin became the founding Director of the Financialization Research Lab, housed at the Institute of Political Economy at Carleton. He combines teaching, research supervision, and his own research in these broad fields. In 2024, Kevin and co-Principal Investigator Professor Priya Gupta (McGill Law) were awarded a SSHRC Insight Development Grant to pursue what they refer to as the “Becoming the World’s Landlords” project, examining the troubling role of pension funds and related institutional investors in increasingly financialized housing.