Lindsay M. Tedds
PROFESSOR OF ECONOMICS · UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY | CO-FOUNDER, INCLUSIECON
Public finance economist working on how the design of taxes,
benefits, and administration decides who is included — and who is left out.
lindsay.tedds1@ucalgary.ca
lindsaytedds.ca
inclusiecon.ca
Ph.D. Economics, McMaster
What I Work On
My research sits where public finance, tax policy, and social policy meet: how fiscal and administrative design shapes equity, access, and well-being in Canada.
I work across peer-reviewed scholarship, technical reports for decision makers, and partnerships with governments and community organizations — because the question of whether a benefit reaches the person it was built for is answered in administration, not in theory.
Research Areas
Basic income design
Tax & benefit administration
Marginal Value of Public Funds
Property tax equity
Cash transfer design
Intersectional policy analysis & GBA+
User fees & municipal finance
Disability & income supports
Short-term rental economies
Tax compliance & the underground economy
Policy Influence
Chair, B.C. MSP Task Force
Government of British Columbia, 2018–2019 — recommendations on eliminating
Medical Services Plan premiums.
Member, B.C. Basic Income Expert Panel
Government of British Columbia, 2018–2021 — $1.1M research program;
the resulting framework is now standard reference in Canadian basic income debate.
Academic Director, Nunavut Basic Income Project
Government of Nunavut, 2021–2022 — $892K feasibility study on
addressing poverty in Canada's North.
Expert witness & expert testimony
Supreme Court of British Columbia (2021–2023). Five appearances before
House of Commons and Senate standing committees (2014–2022). Panelist before
Members of Cabinet, 2023.
Task forces & commissions
Royal Society of Canada COVID-19 Task Force · Government of Canada Task
Force on Women in the Economy · Ecofiscal Commission · City of Calgary Financial
Task Force.
Research Funding
Basic Income for B.C. (PI)$1,100,000
Basic Income for Nunavut (Co-I)$892,073
Calgary Short-Term Rentals (PI)$324,070
FACT — SSHRC Partnership Dev. (PI)$199,923
Property Tax Regressivity (PI)$91,500
Twenty-four further grants$752,218
Total awarded$3.36M
29 grants and research contracts. Principal Investigator on 26.
Published Record
Peer-reviewed journal articles22
Books5
Edited volumes1
Book chapters9
Policy papers21
Technical reports39
General interest & op-eds43
Including Public Finance in Canada (McGraw-Hill), the standard
Canadian public finance textbook — 6th ed. 2023, 7th ed. forthcoming 2027.
Awards
Queen's Platinum Jubilee Medal
Government of Alberta, 2022
Doug Purvis Memorial Prize — Honourable Mention
Canadian Economics Association, 2023, for Impacts of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Women in Canada (RSC, 2022), with Jennifer Robson
Faculty of Arts Award for Public Engagement
University of Calgary, 2021
Current Leadership
PI and Project Director, FACT
Fair and Accountable Canadian Taxation, 2026–2029. With Jennifer Robson
(Carleton) and Antoine Genest-Grégoire (Sherbrooke).
Academic Lead, MVPF Partnership
Marginal Value of Public Funds, 2026–2028. Partner: Maytree.
Co-Director, ENABLE
Equity in Needs-based Assistance for Better Lives and Engagement, 2026–2028.
Co-Founder, INCLUSIECON
Public-facing hub for inclusive economics research.
Editorial Board, Canadian Tax Journal
2020–present.
Public Commentary
50+media appearances in a standard year — 100+ in an election year
Television, radio, print, podcasts
Non-partisan economic commentary on current events. Regular solicited
advice to members of Canadian governments.
Writing
43 op-eds and general interest pieces. Blog:
Dead for Tax Reasons.
Teaching & Mentorship
20 yrsteaching public finance and economics across four universities
Undergraduate
Principles of Micro- and Macroeconomics; Canadian Public Finance.
Classes to 390 students.
Graduate
Public Revenue Analysis; Microsimulation Modeling for Policy Analysis;
Markets and Public Policy.
Supervision
Doctoral and master's supervision and committee membership; a research
team of post-docs, associates, and coordinators.
lindsay.tedds1@ucalgary.ca
lindsaytedds.ca
inclusiecon.ca
Department of Economics, University of Calgary