Thomas Marois is the Tier 1 Canada Research Chair in Public Banking for Sustainability, Inclusion, and Prosperity; Professor of Political Economy; and Director of the Public Banking Project at McMaster University, Canada. He is a leading scholar of public banks worldwide, focused on public-public collaborations for the financing of green and just transitions. Thomas is author of the award-winning 2021 book Public Banks: Decarbonisation, Definancialisation, and Democratisation (Cambridge University Press) and co-editor of two recent books on public banks and public water. He is host of the Finance in Common System Global Research Network ‘PDB Academic’ at the Public Banking Project.
Thomas is an Associate Director of the Municipal Services Project, a global network of researchers investigating public alternatives, and is also a Professorial Research Associate at the Centre for Sustainable Finance, SOAS University of London as well as a Fellow of the Transnational Institute, Amsterdam, and of Social Capital Partners, Toronto.