Enid Slack

Enid Slack

Director, Institute on Municipal Finance and Governance, School of Cities, University of Toronto

Dr. Enid Slack is the Director of the Institute on Municipal Finance and Governance (IMFG) at the School of Cities at the University of Toronto. IMFG focuses on the fiscal health and governance challenges facing cities and city-regions in Canada and around the world. Enid has been working on municipal finance and governance issues for 40 years and consults with governments and international agencies such as the World Bank, IMF, UN Habitat, Asian Development Bank, the Inter-American Development Bank, and the International Growth Centre (at Oxford and LSE). Enid has written several books and articles on property taxes, intergovernmental transfers, municipal infrastructure finance, and metropolitan governance. Recent co-edited books include Funding the Canadian City and Is Your City Healthy? Measuring Urban Fiscal Health.  In 2012, Enid was awarded the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee Medal for her work on cities.