“Richard is an outstanding authority on public finance and tax policy in Canada and around the world,” remarked Robson.
November 28, 2016 – William Robson, President and CEO of the C.D. Howe Institute, announces the re-appointment of Richard Bird, Professor Emeritus, University of Toronto, as a Research Fellow.
“Richard is an outstanding authority on public finance and tax policy in Canada and around the world,” remarked Robson. “He has made key contributions to the Institute’s research program over many years, and we look forward to continued collaboration.”
His most recent Institute report, is entitled “Who decides? Government in the new millennium”
Richard Bird is Professor Emeritus at Rotman; Senior Fellow of the Institute for Municipal Governance and Finance, Munk School of Global Affairs; Distinguished Visiting Professor, Andrew Young School of Public Policy in Atlanta; and Adjunct Professor, Australian School of Taxation and Business Law in Sydney. He is also a member of the Advisory Group of the International Centre for Tax and Development at the Institute for Development Studies (UK).
He completed his undergraduate degree at Dalhousie University and his graduate work in the United States (Columbia University) and the United Kingdom (London School of Economics), receiving his Ph.D. from Columbia and teaching at Harvard for a number of years before joining the University of Toronto. In addition, he spent several years with the Fiscal Affairs Department of the IMF, and has been at various times a visiting professor in the United States, the Netherlands, Australia, Japan, and India as well as a frequent consultant to the World Bank and other national and international organizations.
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