Jack Mintz

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President’s Fellow, School of Public Policy, University of Calgary

Dr. Jack M. Mintz, CM is the President’s Fellow of the School of Public Policy at the University of Calgary after serving as the Palmer Chair and founding Director from January 1, 2008, to June 30, 2015.

He is a board member of Mackenzie Health, York Region, Ontario and the Aristotle Foundation for Public Policy. He is a Distinguished Fellow at the MacDonald-Laurier Institute, a Senior Fellow at the C.D. Howe Institute, and research fellow at International Tax and Investment Centre in Washington DC, CESIfo Germany, and Oxford’s Centre of Business Taxation.  He is a member of the editorial board of International Tax and Public Finance. He is also a weekly contributor to the Financial Post of Canada.

Dr. Mintz became a member of the Order of Canada in 2015 as well as receiving the Queen Elizabeth Diamond Jubilee Medal in 2012 for service to the Canadian tax policy community and Queen Elizabeth Platinum Medal in 2023 for serving as chair of the Alberta Premier’s Economic Recovery Council from 2020 to 2022.

Recent Research by Jack Mintz

It's Time to Move on from ESG (ESG: Myths and Realities)
— Aug 27, 2024
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It;s Time to Move on from ESG

Two new essays in the Institute’s series on the myths and realities of the ESG movement, It’s Time to Move on from ESG and Putting Economics Back into ESG, find that imposing top-down ESG mandates will cause substantial harm to the economy and workers, and public policy objectives, such as those addressed by ESG initiatives, should be decided by and acted on by democratically elected governments, not private sector actors.

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Don’t Spend Away the Windfall: Better Options for Alberta’s Unexpected Revenues
— Feb 9, 2023
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Don’t Spend Away the Windfall: Better Options for Alberta’s Unexpected Revenues

Don’t Spend Away the Windfall: Better Options for Alberta’s Unexpected Revenues is a new study that finds when resource revenues have increased in the past, previous governments have increased spending, which led to sizeable deficits when resource revenues declined—making this an ample opportunity for Alberta to strengthen the province's finances and economy for the long-term.

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Achieving the Four-Day Work Week: Essays on Improving Productivity Growth in Canada
— Mar 4, 2021
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Achieving the Four-Day Work Week: Essays on Improving Productivity Growth in Canada

Achieving the 4-Day Work Week: Essays on Improving Productivity Growth in Canada is a new essay series, authored by notable economists and analysts from across North America, that identifies and discusses a set of initiatives that promise to improve Canada’s labour productivity growth rate, which is essential to achieve a 4-day work week without sacrificing compensation. In broad terms, the initiatives identified in these essays promote faster productivity growth by encouraging more investment in physical and human capital, and by stimulating innovation and entrepreneurship.

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