Richard M. Bird
Distinguished Visiting Professor
Senior Associate, International Studies Program

Professor Richard M. Bird is a Distinguished Visiting Professor at the Andrew Young School of Policy Studies. While in Atlanta, Professor Bird presents lectures on fiscal policy issues with an emphasis on developing countries.

Richard Bird is Professor Emeritus of Economics at the University of Toronto and Adjunct Professor and Director of the International Tax Program, Joseph L. Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto. He has held faculty positions at the University of Toronto, Harvard University, Columbia University, Monash University (Australia), and the Erasmus University Rotterdam (Netherlands). He has served as a senior economic advisor for the World Bank, IMF, and a large number of governments around the world. In addition, Prof. Bird has authored numerous articles and books on tax policy, tax administration and intergovernmental finance reform issues, including:

• Fiscal Decentralization in Developing Countries, (Cambridge University Press, 1998), with F. Vaillancourt
  
• Decentralization of the Socialist State: Intergovernmental Finance in Transitional Economics with R. Ebel, and C. Wallich, (World Bank, 1995)
  
• Improving Tax Administration in Developing Countries, with M. Casanegra de Jantscher, (International Monetary Fund, 1992)