The Director of the Institute is Dr. Enid Slack, one of Canada's foremost experts in municipal finance. Enid has been working in this field for over 30 years and is respected nationally and internationally for her research on property taxes and other aspects of municipal finance. Dr. Enid Slack is an Adjunct Professor at the Munk School of Global Affairs at the University of Toronto. She chairs the Intergovernmental Committee for Economic and Labour Force Development in Toronto (ICE) and is a member of the Associations Advisory Committee of the Ontario Municipal Knowledge Network (OMKN), the Policy and Research Advisory Council of The Learning Partnership, and the Advisory Board of the International Property Tax Institute (IPTI). Enid was appointed Special Advisor to the Greater Toronto Area Task Force in 1995, a member of the Who Does What Panel in Ontario in 1996, Co-Chair of the Learning Opportunities Grant Panel in 1997, Special Advisor to the Mayor's Task Force on Homelessness in 1998, a member of the City of Toronto's Business Reference Group on tax policy in 1999, a member of the Working Group of the Toronto City Summit Alliance in 2003, and a Commissioner on the Property Tax Policy Review Commission for the City of Vancouver in 2006-07. In 2009-10, she chaired the Municipal Port Property Taxation Fairness Commission in Metro Vancouver. Enid has advised governments and the private sector in Canada and abroad on property taxes, intergovernmental transfers, the division of expenditures and revenues among levels of government, municipal boundary restructuring, and other local finance issues. Enid has co-authored or co-edited five books and has published numerous articles on urban public finance. Recent publications include International Handbook of Land and Property Taxation (co-edited with Richard Bird), UN Habitat Guide to Municipal Finance, and Finance and Governance of Capital Cities in Federal Systems (co-edited with Rupak Chattopadhyay). Enid received her B.A. in Economics from York University (Glendon College), and an M.A. and Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Toronto.

Dr. Richard M. Bird is  Senior Fellow of the Institute on Municipal Finance and Governance, and  Professor Emeritus, Department of Economics,  at the Joseph L. Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto. He currently holds appointments as a Research Fellow at the C.D. Howe Institute, and Distinguished Visiting Professor at the Andrew Young School of Public Policy, Georgia State University. He has served with the Fiscal Affairs Department of the IMF, been a visiting professor in the United States, the Netherlands, Australia, and elsewhere, and been a frequent consultant to the World Bank and other national and international organizations. He has published extensively, especially on the fiscal problems of developing and transitional countries.

André comes to the IMFG from the Ontario Ministry of Finance, where he was Policy Advisor to the Deputy Minister for the tax, pensions, alcohol, and gaming files, and served concurrently as Executive Assistant and Special Advisor to the Associate Deputy Minister. Prior to taking on these roles, he was an Economist within the Ministry’s Office of Budget and Treasury Board, where he supported the fiscal planning process with focus on the economic development and trade portfolio. André has also enjoyed a number of other interesting and challenging roles in a range of milieus. He worked for the Public Policy Forum, an Ottawa-based think tank, on projects focusing on everything from sport policy to public sector reform. Working in the City Manager’s Office for the City of Toronto, he helped shape the policy framework for City’s four independent accountability officers. He has also worked for l’Archive nationale du Québec, and has consulted for a range of organizations including the Maytree Foundation, Tides Canada, and the Public Service Commission of Canada. André received a Masters degree from the University of Toronto’s School of Public Policy and Governance (SPPG). While at the University, he was the recipient of the IMFG’s Alan Broadbent Fellowship in Municipal Finance and Governance. He also co-founded the Public Good Initiative, a pro bono consulting initiative at the SPPG that matches graduate student volunteers with Toronto-area, non-profit organizations. André received his B.A. in Political Studies and History from Queen’s University, Kingston.

Stella Kyriakakis is the Administrator at the Institute on Municipal Finance & Governance. Stella holds an Honours Bachelor of Arts Fine Arts Specialist degree from the University of Toronto. Stella is also the administrator for the Centre for the Study of the United States and the American Studies program  at the Munk School of Global Affairs. Stella has over 20 years experience as a senior administrator in film and the fine arts, including Manager of Operations of Graphic Pictures Inc. (documentary films); Executive Assistant to the Executive Producer, Ontario Region, National Film Board of Canada; Programs and Publications Coordinator at Gallery TPW/Toronto Photographers Workshop; Director of Art Metropole; and, Director of the Photon League of Holographers (artist-run centres). Currently, Stella is a freelance copy editor for various arts organizations such as YYZBooks, and the Justina M. Barnicke Gallery at Hart House.