The Local Government Revenue Initiative (LoGRI) is proud to announce the launch of the LoGRI Associates Program (LAP) and to welcome its inaugural cohort. The LAP is designed to recognize senior professionals who are involved in key LoGRI projects, and link them to our broader program of work. The goal is to strengthen partnerships and deepen collaboration between LoGRI and leading property tax practitioners, researchers, and experts.
Meet the Cohort
Those in the first cohort each have a long-standing relationship with LoGRI and extensive experience in property taxation and domestic revenue mobilization research, technical reform, and policy engagement. These members include:
Enid Slack
Enid is the Director of the Institute of Municipal Finance and Governance at the School of Cities at the University of Toronto. Drawing on her extensive international experience in the field, Enid has supported the review and development of key program and research outputs.
Jonathan Weigel
Jonathan is an Assistant Professor at the University of Berkeley. Since 2022, LoGRI has been working with Jonathan and the University of Berkeley on a transformative IT-led property tax reform project in Kananga, Democratic Republic of Congo.
Nara Monkam
Nara is the Chair in Municipal Finance at the African Tax Institute within the Faculty of Economic and Management Sciences, Associate Professor of Public Economics in the Department of Economics and the Head of the Public Policy Hub (PPH) at the University of Pretoria, South Africa. Nara also served on the LoGRI Advisory Board from 2022-2025.
Niccolò Meriggi
Niccolò is a Senior Research Fellow in Development Economics at the University of Oxford. Niccolò has been working closely with LoGRI’s Sierra Leone team to co-lead our work supporting the reform of property tax systems in Sierra Leone, and conducting related research. He recently co-authored LoGRI’s Working Paper “Participation, Legitimacy and Fiscal Capacity in Weak States: Evidence from Participatory Budgeting”.
LoGRI is thrilled to welcome this inaugural cohort and looks forward to the impact of their continued collaboration and engagement with the program.
To learn more about the Associates, check out Our Team.