Dr. Jack M. Mintz President and Chief Executive Officer C.D. Howe Institute

Jack M. Mintz is President and Chief Executive Officer, C.D. Howe Institute, an independent policy think-tank, with members from the senior ranks of business, government and academia. He is also the Deloitte & Touche LLP Professor of Taxation, Joseph L. Rotman School of Management, and co-director of the International Tax Program, Institute of International Business, both at the University of Toronto.

Dr. Mintz serves on the boards of Brascan, the Royal Ontario Museum Foundation, National Statistics Council, Ontario Financing Authority, CHC Helicopter Corporation, Imperial Oil Limited, International Institute of Public Finance, and Sylvia Ostry Foundation Board. He has published more than 180 books and articles in the fields of public economics and fiscal federalism. He is also a regular contributor to Canadian Business and has frequently published articles in the national newspapers. He serves as an Associate Editor of Contemporary Accounting Research and International Tax and Public Finance, and is a research fellow of CESifo, Munich, Germany.

In 2002, Dr. Mintz's book, Most Favored Nation: A Framework for Smart Economic Policy, was winner of the Purvis Prize for best book in economic policy and runner-up for Donner Prize for best book in public policy.

Dr. Mintz was the 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; a special advisor to the Deputy Minister, Tax Policy Branch, Department of Finance, Ottawa, 1984-86; and Director of the John Deutsch Institute, Queen's University, 1987-89. He was the founding Editor-in-Chief of International Tax and Public Finance, published by Kluwer Academic Publishers from 1994 - 2001.

Dr. Mintz has consulted widely with the World Bank, the International Monetary Fund, the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, the governments of Canada, Alberta, New Brunswick, Ontario, and Saskatchewan, and various businesses and nonprofit organizations.


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