Dr. Enid Slack
Director
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 40 years and is respected nationally and internationally for her research on municipal finance and governance.
Bill Hughes
Senior Fellow
Bill Hughes is a Senior Fellow at the Institute on Municipal Finance and Governance. He has over 35 years of experience in finance and public policy at both the provincial and municipal levels of government. Bill’s research and policy interests include municipal financial sustainability, demographics, urban economics, the impact of planning policy on municipal finance, and the economics of water policy.
Joe Pennachetti
Senior Fellow
Joe Pennachetti is Senior Fellow at the Institute on Municipal Finance and Governance. He has over 35 years of municipal financial management experience. As the Toronto City Manager from 2008 to 2015, Joe was responsible for 37,000 staff, an operating budget of $12 billion, and a $30 billion 10 year capital plan.
Dr. Gabriel Eidelman
Faculty Fellow
Dr. Gabriel Eidelman is Assistant Professor, Teaching Stream, at the University of Toronto’s Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy, where he serves as director of the Urban Policy Lab, with a joint appointment at the Institute for Management and Innovation. He teaches courses on urban politics, policy, and governance in the Munk School's Master of Public Policy program as well as IMI's Master of Urban Innovation program.
Dr. Alexandra Flynn
Fellow
Dr. Alexandra Flynn is an Assistant Professor at the Peter A. Allard School of Law at The University of British Columbia, where she specializes in municipal law and governance and teaches interactive, practice-based courses in legal research, municipal and planning law, and administrative law.
Dr. Aaron A. Moore
Fellow
Dr. Aaron A. Moore is an Associate Professor in the Department of Political Science, at the University of Winnipeg, and an Adjunct Professor in the Department of City Planning, at the University of Manitoba. Aaron was formerly an Adjunct Professor at the University of Waterloo. He received his Doctorate degree in Political Science from the University of Western Ontario in 2009.
Dr. Zack Taylor
Fellow
Dr. Zack Taylor is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Political Science at Western University, where he teaches and researches on comparative urban political economy, regional planning and governance, local government and finance, and local public administration. He is also a non-practicing Registered Professional Planner in Ontario.
Dr. Almos Tassonyi
Senior Associate
Dr. Almos Tassonyi is an Executive Fellow at The School of Public Policy, University of Calgary. He is a Research Associate at the International Property Tax Institute and a Research Fellow of the International Centre for Economic Analysis.
Sonali Chakraborti
Manager, Programs and Research
Sonali Chakraborti is the new Manager of Programs and Research for the Institute on Municipal Finance & Governance (IMFG). As Manager, Sonali takes a leadership role in the activities of the IMFG, overseeing the Institute’s operations and designing major research programs in municipal finance and governance, as well as other projects.
Stephanie Ortynsky
Post-Doctoral Fellow
Dr. Stephanie Ortynsky is the 2023-2024 Richard M. Bird Post-Doctoral Fellow. Her research focuses on the politics of municipal budgeting approaches, intergovernmental fiscal relations, and the intersection between the politics of federal immigration targets and municipal government implications.
Sean Grisdale
Graduate Fellow
Sean Grisdale is the 2023-24 IMFG Graduate Fellow in Municipal Finance and Governance. He is a PhD Candidate in the Department of Geography and Planning at the University of Toronto. He has researched, written and published on a wide range of housing affordability issues.
Keir Matthews-Hunter
Graduate Fellow
Keir Matthews-Hunter is the 2023-24 Blanche and Sandy Van Ginkel Graduate Fellow in Municipal Finance and Governance. He is a first-year PhD student in Planning and graduate of the Master of Science in Planning program at the University of Toronto. His research interests are informed by his prior work experience as a housing planner with the City of Toronto, where he undertook assignments and advised on the development and implementation of housing policy and regulation.
Piali Roy
Administrative and Communications Assistant
Piali Roy is the Administrative and Communications Assistant at IMFG. Prior to joining the Institute, she worked in both media and communications, including the public policy program within the Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy as well as the Maytree Foundation.