About the Commissioners

Property Tax Policy Review Commission Members

Dr. Stanley W. Hamilton, Chair

Dr. Stanley W. Hamilton is the Philip H. White Emeritus Professor of Real Estate, Sauder School of Business, University of British Columbia and a member of the Finance Division. He has extensive teaching and research experience in the areas of real estate investments, real property assessment and taxation and pensions. Stan is the Past Chair of the Board of Trustees of the UBC Faculty Pension Plan and Past Director of the Bureau of Asset Management (UBC Commerce).

Stan served as a member with the BC Commission of Inquiry on Property Taxation and Assessment for the province of British Columbia and as a Director for the B.C. Assessment Authority. He was a trustee of CREIT, a major real estate investment trust, and member and past chair of the Vancouver City Planning Commission. Stan also served as a Public Governor of the Vancouver Stock Exchange.

Stan is actively engaged in a number of community organizations including the Investment Advisory Committee for the Public Guardian and Trustee of British Columbia, Financial Service Tribunal, UBC Development Permit Board and the Arts Club Theatre Company.

Mr. Peter Adams

Peter is an independent consultant based in Victoria, BC. He is an economist by training with Bachelor and Master's degrees from the London School of Economics and Political Science. His fields of expertise include public finance, taxation and public policy analysis. Since 1986, he has completed more than 250 consulting assignments for various public and private sector clients, including property tax payers and local governments. For example, he was research director for the “Financing Local Government” studies commissioned by the provincial government and the Union of British Columbia Municipalities. He also served on the research staff of the Sullivan Royal Commission on Education.

Prior to joining the consulting field, Peter held a number of senior positions with the government of British Columbia including Director of the Tax and Fiscal Policy Branch of the Ministry of Finance. Peter has held faculty positions at the London School of Economics and the University of Nairobi and an adjunct position at the University of Victoria.

Dr. Enid Slack

Dr. Enid Slack is the Director of the Institute on Municipal Finance and Governance at the Munk Centre for International Studies at the University of Toronto. She is also an Adjunct Professor at the university, teaching a graduate course in urban public finance to the planning students. Enid has been president of Enid Slack Consulting Inc. since 1981. Enid advises governments and private companies in Canada and abroad on property taxes, intergovernmental transfers, and other local finance issues.

Currently, Enid chairs the Intergovernmental Committee for Economic and Labour Force Development in Toronto (ICE) and is on the Advisory Board of the International Property Tax Institute. In 1999, she was a member of the Business Reference Group to the Assessment and Tax Policy Task Force for the City of Toronto.

Enid has co-authored four books and published numerous articles on property taxes and urban public finance. Her most recent book is entitled International Handbook on Land and Property Taxation (co-edited with Richard Bird).

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