Kenneth J. McKenzie is a Professor in the Department of Economics and Distinguished Fellow in the School of Public Policy at the University of Calgary. His principle area of research is public economics, with an emphasis in taxation. He has received the Harry Johnson Prize for the best article in the Canadian Journal of Economics (1996), and is a two time recipient of the Douglas Purvis Memorial Prize for a published work of excellence relating to Canadian public policy (1999, 2001). He has served as the EnCana Scholar at the C.D. Howe Institute, where he delivered the 2001 Benefactors Lecture. Professor McKenzie has acted as an advisor to governments and institutions at the international, federal and provincial levels. He has served on the Executive Council of the Canadian Economics Association, and on the editorial boards of the Canadian Journal of Economics and the Canadian Tax Journal and was editor of the journal Canadian Public Policy.