IMA On-Demand & FTDP

Michael Bowman

Senior Advisor, International Property Tax Institute (IPTI)

Michael is a senior litigation and dispute-resolution lawyer with over 35 years in private practice, and subsequent General Counsel and executive leadership experience in the public sector. He was a partner at Osler, Hoskin & Harcourt LLP, one of Canada’s leading business law firms, where he led a broad practice in municipal law, land use planning and development, property assessment and taxation, property valuation and compensation disputes, expropriation, and environmental law. Following his retirement from Osler, Michael was recruited by Ontario’s Municipal Property Assessment Corporation to serve as its General Counsel and to mentor associate counsel. At MPAC, Michael was responsible for the overall leadership and strategic direction of MPAC’s Legal, Policy and Compliance branch, reporting to the President/CAO. He also served as a member of MPAC’s Executive Management Group with leadership responsibility for specific strategic initiatives and reporting to the Board of Directors. Following the successful transition of the General Counsel role to a successor, Michael continued for 2 years at MPAC as Executive Advisor and Counsel in the Office of the President. Michael currently serves as a Senior Advisor to the International Property Tax Institute.

Paul Sanderson

President, International Property Tax Institute (IPTI)

Paul is the President of the International Property Tax Institute (IPTI). Before becoming President of IPTI, Paul was the Director at the UK Valuation Office Agency (VOA), responsible for providing professional advice and technical guidance across a wide range of valuation and property issues. The VOA deals with the assessment of over 29million properties in England and Wales for both council tax payable in respect of residential properties and business rates payable in respect of commercial and other non-domestic properties. These two local property taxes raise revenue in excess of £70 billion annually to support the provision of local services. Paul has over 40 years of experience in the valuation of property for a variety of purposes. Paul is a past President of the Rating Surveyors’ Association (RSA) based in the UK, a Fellow of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RICS) and a Fellow of the Institute of Revenues, Rating and Valuation (IRRV).