Jack M. Mintz
Present Positions
Palmer Chair in Public Policy, School of Policy Studies, University of Calgary, Canada
Past Positions
President and Chief Executive Officer, C.D. Howe Institute;
Deloitte & Touche LLP Professor of Taxation, Joseph L. Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto;
Co-director of the International Tax Program, Institute of International Business, University of Toronto;
Clifford Clark Visiting Economist at the Department of Finance, Ottawa, and Chair of the federal government’s Technical Committee on Business Taxation in 1996 and 1997;
Associate Dean (Academic) of the Faculty of Management, University of Toronto, 1993-95;
Special advisor to the Deputy Minister, Tax Policy Branch, Department of Finance, Ottawa, 1984-86;
Director of the John Deutsch Institute, Queen’s University, 1987-89;
Founding Editor-in-Chief of International Tax and Public Finance, 1994-2001
Other Activities
Member of the boards of:
Brascan, the Royal Ontario Museum Foundation,
Atlantic Council of Canada,
National Statistics Council,
Ontario Financing Authority,
CHC Helicopter Corporation,
International Institute of Public Finance;
Associate Editor of Contemporary Accounting Research and International Tax and Public Finance;
Research fellow of CESifo, Munich, Germany.
Publications
More than 180 books and articles in the fields of public economics and fiscal federalism.
In 2002, his book "Most Favored Nation: A Framework for Smart Economic Policy" won the Purvis Prize for best book in economic policy and was runner-up for the Donner Prize for best book in public policy.