Martin Gervais is an Associate Professor in the economics department at the University of Iowa. He is a macroeconomist who works in diverse areas, such as optimal fiscal policy, housing markets, and the determinants and consequences of borrowing constraints, in particular as they relate to human capital accumulation.

Gervais received a B.A. in Accounting and M.B.A. from Universite Laval in 1991 and 1993 respectively, and an M.A. and Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Western Ontario in 1995 and 1999 respectively.