Richard M. Bird
Bio
Richard Bird is Professor Emeritus at Rotman“in memorium”; 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 has lectured and published extensively on tax and public finance issues in many countries. He currently chairs the Advisory Group of the International Centre for Tax and Development at the Institute for Development Studies (UK).
Academic Positions
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2001-2004
Visiting Professor of Law, Harvard University
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1999-
Distinguished Visiting Professor, Andrew Young School of Public Policy, Georgia State University
Non-Academic Positions
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2003-
Adjunct Fellow, International Tax and Investment Center
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2003-
Fellow, C.D.Howe Institute
Selected Publications - Books and Chapters
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Financing Infrastructure: Who Should Pay?
Bird,R., E. Slack
McGill-Queens University Press
2017
Pages: 311 pp.
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Is Your City Healthy? Measuring Urban Fiscal Health
Bird, R., Slack, E., eds.
Institute of Public Administration of Canada
2015
Pages: 215 pp.
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Taxation and Development: The Weakest Link?
RM Bird, and J Martinez-Vazquez
Edward Elgar
2013
Pages: 450 pp.
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A Tale of Two Taxes: Property Tax in Ontario
RM Bird, E Slack and A Tassonyi
Lincoln Institute of Land Policy
2012
Pages: 275 pp.
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The VAT in Developing and Transitional Countries
RM Bird and PP Gendron
Cambridge University Press
2007
Pages: 300 pp
Research and Teaching Interests
Current research interests include tax policy, tax administration, local finance and intergovernmental fiscal relations particularly in developing countries.
Honors and Awards
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2017
Lifetime Contribution Award, Canadian Tax Foundaton
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2013
Queen's Diamond Jubilee Award, Canadian Tax Foundation
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1978
Fellow, Royal Society of Canada
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1997
Douglas Sherbaniuk Award, Canadian Tax Foundation
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2006
Daniel M. Holland Award, National Tax Association