Our Team
Economists, researchers, and practitioners working to bring land value reform to life.
Core
Martin Adams
Martin Adams is the author of Land: A New Paradigm for a Thriving World. His work addresses a structural problem in modern economies — that the rising value of land, created by the whole community, flows to private owners rather than back to the public. He coordinates a team of economists and specialists in support of creating fair and equitable economic frameworks in service of a common good.
Dan Murphy
Faculty member at the University of Virginia's Darden School of Business, where he has taught macroeconomics in the MBA program since 2013 and teaches courses on markets, government, and society. He holds a PhD in economics and public policy from the University of Michigan.
Stefan Horn
Economist and researcher specializing in land rents and housing systems. He received a PhD from University College London, where his research explores how housing systems can meet social needs within planetary boundaries, with a particular emphasis on housing space use, land rents, and ownership models.
Kristin Surak
Professor of Political Sociology at the London School of Economics and holds a PhD in sociology from the University of California, Los Angeles. She is a leading expert on elite mobility, international migration, and investment migration, whose research has been translated into more than a dozen languages.
Simon Dahonick
Data scientist with experience building data-intensive applications for organizations ranging from startups to industry-leading multinationals. Simon has a degree in Engineering Physics from the University of British Columbia and is driven to put big visions into practice with predictive modeling, data pipelines, and software design.
Advisors
Floyd Marinescu
Founder of C4Media and co-founder and primary funder of Commonwealth (commonwealth.ca), which advances land value taxation research and policy in Canada. He commissions LVT micro-simulation modelling and writes publicly on land economics. Floyd is a lifelong meditator and practicing Buddhist.
Liam Wilkinson
Director of the School of Economic Science, a Canadian educational charity focused on land value taxation (LVT) and basic income. He leads a research project with Statistics Canada building a microsimulation model to examine revenue potential, distributional effects, and efficiency gains of LVT in Canada.
Ken Yang
Oversees media production, publications, and national campaigns at Commonwealth Canada. He writes on post-labour economics, sovereign wealth funds, AI, and housing. He co-founded a California-based project in decentralized governance and holds a JD/MBA from the University of Toronto.
Andrew Rose
Political staffer with the BC Green Party and Georgist policy reformer. He writes on Georgism and urbanism, with work published in the Georgia Straight and the Progress & Poverty Institute, including pieces on taxation reform, land-value tax, and environmental policy.
Frank Peddle
Professor of Philosophy at the Dominican University College; Secretary-Treasurer of the Henry George Foundation of Canada; Past-President of the Progress and Poverty Institute; Co-editor and contributor of The Annotated Works of Henry George, six volumes; Advisor to Common Wealth Canada.