Ted Tsiakopoulos Email & Phone Number

Ted Tsiakopoulos is a senior economist and sought-after speaker with extensive experience analyzing real estate and financial markets. In 2019, he joined CMHC’s Housing Markets Policy team and helped lead a modelling project geared to understanding the structural barriers in the Canadian housing market. Prior to joining the policy division, Ted was CMHC's Chief Regional Economist providing functional guidance to a team of economists responsible for economic and housing analysis as well as research. Under his guidance, the CMHC team ranked first in forecast accuracy in 2015 against a consensus group of external forecasters. Over his professional career, his commentary and research has been widely quoted across major media outlets such as Money Magazine, BNN, CTV and CBC. Ted has also delivered very engaging presentations to diverse audiences such as: Canadian & Ontario Home Builders, Toronto Real Estate Board, Canadian Federation of Apartment Association, Federation of Rental Providers of Ontario and Mortgage Professionals of Canada.Throughout his career, Ted has promoted a culture of learning. Besides mentoring a number of economists across Canada, he also devotes significant personal time to financial literacy research and education having served as chair for a number of financial literacy committees and as a consultant to Junior Achievement of Canada. Ted was also invited to teach housing economics and policy at Toronto Metropolitan University in 2022. In June 2020, he co-authored a book titled Property Trendsetters - highlighting how Generation Z needs to prepare for the economic and real estate disruptions that are coming. The book, whose proceeds support women facing domestic violence, hit best seller in a number of categories in the US and Canada. Ted is currently on the Board of Directors for the Toronto Association for Business and Economics and a member of CABE. Ted obtained a master’s degree in economics from York and also studied at the London School of Economics in the UK.

Listed skills include Policy Analysis, Economic Research, Econometrics, Major Media Commentary, and 33 others.