Tax havens ‘serve no useful economic purpose’: more than 300 economists tell world leaders

Experts including Thomas Piketty and Jeff Sachs call for more tax transparency

More than 300 leading economists from 30 countries have today written to world leaders warning that there is no economic justification for allowing tax havens to continue, and urging them to bring an end to offshore financial secrecy. The letter comes ahead of the UK Government’s summit on offshore corruption in London on Thursday 12 May, which politicians from 40 countries including Australia, as well as World Bank and IMF representatives, are expected to attend.

THE LETTER:

Dear world leaders,

We urge you to use this month’s anti-corruption summit in London to make significant moves towards ending the era of tax havens.

The existence of tax havens does not add to overall global wealth or well-being; they serve no useful economic purpose. Whilst these jurisdictions undoubtedly benefit some rich individuals and multinational corporations, this benefit is at the expense of others, and they therefore serve to increase inequality.

As the Panama Papers and other recent exposés have revealed, the secrecy provided by tax havens fuels corruption and undermines countries’ ability to collect their fair share of taxes. While all countries are hit by tax dodging, poor countries are proportionately the biggest losers, missing out on at least $170bn of taxes annually as a result.

As economists, we have very different views on the desirable levels of taxation, be they direct or indirect, personal or corporate. But we are agreed that territories allowing assets to be hidden in shell companies or which encourage profits to be booked by companies that do no business there, are distorting the working of the global economy. By hiding illicit activities and allowing rich individuals and multinational corporations to operate by different rules, they also threaten the rule of law that is a vital ingredient for economic success.

To lift the veil of secrecy surrounding tax havens we need new global agreements on issues such as public country by country reporting, including for tax havens. Governments must also put their own houses in order by ensuring that all the territories, for which they are responsible, make publicly available information about the real “beneficial” owners of company and trusts. The UK, as host for this summit and as a country that has sovereignty over around a third of the world’s tax havens, is uniquely placed to take a lead.

Taking on the tax havens will not be easy; there are powerful vested interests that benefit from the status quo. But it was Adam Smith who said that the rich “should contribute to the public expense, not only in proportion to their revenue, but something more than in that proportion.” There is no economic justification for allowing the continuation of tax havens which turn that statement on its head.

CASE STUDY: Malawi

Tax revenue that should be helping to fund public services like healthcare and education in Malawi and other poor countries is disappearing at an alarming rate. It’s estimated that Africa loses around $14billion in tax revenues annually – enough money to pay for healthcare for mothers and children that could save four million children’s lives a year and employ enough teachers to get every African child into school.

In Malawi, it’s impossible to get a full picture of the scale of tax dodging. However, Oxfam calculated that the lost tax revenue from the money revealed to be held by Malawians in HSBC accounts in Geneva in last year’s Swissleaks scandal could pay the salaries of 800 nurses for one year.

Half of Malawi’s 16 million people live in poverty. The health system is seriously under-resourced with shortages of staff and vital medicines. On average there are just three nurses for every 10,000 people. Public spending per primary-school child is among the world’s lowest. Recent cuts to government budgets are making the situation even worse for the poorest who have no way to pay for private clinics and schools.

Signed,

 

Country	Title	Name	Surname	Position and Faculty/Organization
Argentina	Professor	Alan B.	Cibils	Professor, Universidad Nacional de General Sarmiento,
Argentina		Corina	Rodríguez Enriquez	Researcher – National Council of Research / Centro Interdisciplinario para el Estudio de Políticas Públicas – Buenos Aires
Australia		P N (Raja)	Junankar	Honorary Professor, UNSW Australia and Emeritus Professor, Western Sydney University and Research Fellow, IZA, Bonn
Australia	Professor	Geoff	Harcourt	Professor Emeritus AO FASSA FAcSS, Emeritus Reader in The History of Economic Theory, Cambridge, 1998; Emeritus Fellow, Jesus College, 1998; Professor Emeritus, Adelaide, 1988; Visiting Professorial Fellow, UNSW Australia, 2010–2016,
Australia	Professor	John	Langmore	School of Social and Political Sciences, University of Melbourne,
Australia	Professor	Andrew	McLennan	School of Economics, University of Queensland, QLD
Australia	Professor	Flavio	Menezes	The University of Queensland,
Austria	Professor	Kunibert	Raffer	University of Vienna,Austria,
Belgium		Alison	Tate	Director Economic and Social Policy, International Trade Union Confederation, Brussels
Cameroon		M	Kane Gilles Quentin	PhD Student in Economics, University of Yaoundé ll
Canada	Professor	A. Haroon	Akram-Lodhi	Professor of International Development Studies, Trent University;
Canada	Professor	Peter	Dietsch	Université de Montréal
Canada	Professor	Hashmat	Khan	Professor, Carleton University, Canada,
Canada	Dr	Kiari	Liman-Tinguiri	President and Principle Consultant at IEDAS Inc, Ottawa
Canada	Professor	Patricia E	Perkins	Professor and Ecological Economist, Faculty of Environmental Studies, York University, Toronto
Canada		Toby	Sanger	Senior Economist, Canadian Union of Public Employees.  Also on boards of Canadians for Tax Fairness and on Global Alliance for a Tax Justice.
Côte d’Ivoire	Professor	AKA Bedia	Francois	University Alassane Pouattara of Bouaké
Czech Republic		Petr	Janský	Assistant Professor, Charles University in Prague,
Denmark		Morten	Elkjaer	Head of department on growth and employment, Danida, Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
Denmark	Professor	Jesper	Jespersen	Roskilde University, Denmark, jesperj@ruc.dk
Denmark	Professor	Katarina	Juselius	Emeritus Professor, Department of Economics, University of Copenhagen
Denmark	Professor	Bengt-Âke	Lundvall	Aalborg University
Dominican Republic		Rosa	Cañete Alonso	Coordinadora campaña IGUALES en ALC, Oxfam, Santo Domingo
Ecuador		Alberto	Acosta	Economist, Investigador, FLACSO
Finland	Dr	Miguel	Nino-Zarazúa	Research Fellow, UNU-WIDER
France		François	Bourguignon	Paris School of Economics
France		John	Evans	General Secretary, Trade Union Advisory Committee to the OECD
France	Dr	Moulin	Léonard	Researcher, University Paris 13
France		Joseph	Proctor	Political Economy Master’s Student, University of Paris 13 & Kingston University London
France		Sauman	Singh	PdD student, Aix-Marseille School of Economics, Marseille
France		Giorgio	Fabbri	Researcher, CNRS – Université d’Aix Marseille, Marseille
Germany	Dr	Charlotte	Bartels	Research Associate, German Institute for Economic Research (DIW Berlin)
Germany	Prof.Dr	Barbara	Fritz	Director of the Institute for Latin American Studies, Professor of Economics. Freie Universität Berlin,  Berlin
Germany	Prof.Dr	Hansjörg	Herr	Berlin School of Economics and Law
Germany	Prof.Dr	Martina	Metzger	Professor of Monetary Economics, Berlin School of Economics and Law,
Germany	Prof.Dr	Thomas	Rixen	University of Bamberg
Germany	Dr	A.	Tarassow	University of Hamburg
Ghana	Professor	A.K.	Fosu	Professor, ISSER, University of Ghana, Legon
Greece		Nelly-Eleni	Pavlidou	Ass. Prof, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki,
India		Ashok	Basu	Retired Commercial Banker, Axis Bank (ex), Kolkata
India		Avnita	Bir	Director Principal, R N Podar School, Mumbai
India		Malini	Chakravarty	Senior Researcher, Centre for Budget and Governance Accountability, New Delhi
India	Professor	C.P.	Chandrasekhar	Dean, School of Social Sciences, and Professor Centre for Economic Studies and Planning, Jawaharlal Nehru University
India	Professor	Jayati	Ghosh	Centre for Economic Studies and Planning School of Social Sciences, Jawaharlal Nehru University
India	Professor	Surender	Kumar	Professor, Delhi School of Economics, University of Delhi
India	Dr	Ganesh	Manjhi	Assistant Professor, Delhi University
India	Dr	Abhiroop	Mukhopadhyay	Associate Professor, Indian Statistical Institute, New Delhi,
India	Dr	Roli	Misra	Associate Professor, dept of Economics University of Lucknow, Lucknow,
India	Professor	Deepak	Nayyar	Emeritus Professor of Economics, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi
India	Dr	Indira	Rajaraman	Economist (no more given)
India	Professor	Sunanda	Sen	Former Professor, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi
India	Dr	Gurbachan	Singh	Adjunct Faculty, Indian Statistical Institute, Delhi Centre, New Delhi
Ireland	Dr	Nata	Duvvury	Senior Lecturer and Co-Director Centre for Global Women’s Studies, School of Political Science and Sociology, National University of Ireland, Galway,
Ireland	Professor	Brian	Lucey	Professor of Finance, Trinity Business School, Trinity College, Dublin 2
Ireland	professor	Gerard	Hughes	Adjunct Professor, Trinity Business School, Dublin
Ireland	Dr	Stephen	Kinsella	Senior Lecturer in Economics, University of Limerick
Ireland	Professor	Terrence	McDonough	School of Business and Economics, National University of Ireland Galway
Ireland	Dr	Tom	McDonnell	Senior Economist, Nevin Economic Research Institute
Ireland	Dr	Nat	O’Connor	Lecturer in Public Policy and Public Management, Ulster University
Ireland	Dr	Srinivas	Raghavendra	Lecturer, National University of Ireland, Galway
Ireland	Dr	Eoin	Reeves	Senior Lecturer in Economics, University of Limerick
Ireland		J	Stewart	Associate Professor in Finance, Trinity Business School, Trinity College, Dublin
ireland		Paul	Sweeney	chair Economists’ Network, TASC
Ireland		Michael	Taft	Research Officer, Unite the Union, Dublin
Ireland	Professor	Paul	Teague	Queen’s University Management School  Belfast
Italy	Professor	Nicola	Acocella	Emeritus – Sapienza University of Rome –
Italy	Professor	Antonio	Acconcia	Professor of economics , universiity Federico II Naples
Italy	Professor	Pietro	Allessandrini	Professor Emeritus of Political Economy, Univpm, Ancona ,
Italy		Amedeo	Argentiero	Assistant Professor of Economics, University of Perugia, Department of Economics,
Italy		Emanuele	Bacchiochi	Associate Professor of Econometrics, University of Milan
Italy	Professor	Arnaldo	Bagnasco	professor emeritus of economic sociology, University of Turin.
Italy		Massimo	Baldini	University of Modena and Reggio Emilia
Italy	Professor	Renato	Balducci	Professor of Political Economy, Università Politecnica delle Marte,  retired,
Italy	Professor	Stefano	Bartolini	Associate Professor of Economics,University of Siena
Italy	Professor	Elisabetta	Basile	Professor of Development Economics, University of Rome La Sapienza,
Italy	Professor	Leonardo	Becchetti	Full professor of Economics, University of Rome Tor Vergata
Italy	Professor	Giorgio	Bellettini	Department of Economics, University of Bologna
Italy	Professor	Paolo	Bertoletti	Professor of Economics, University of Pavia
Italy		Annaflavia	Bianchi	Freelance economics of innovation, Italy,
Italy	Professor	Mario	Biggeri	Associate Professor University of Florence
Italy	Professor	Salvatore	Bimonte	University of Siena
Italy		Fabrizio	Botti	Assistant Professor, University of Perugia, Perugia
Italy	professor	Rinaldo	Brau	Professor offerte Public Finance, University of Cagliari
Italy		Roberto	Burlando	Associate professor of Economics and Ethics, University of Torino
Italy	Professor	Michele	Capriati	Professor of Economic Policy, University of Bari ,
Italy	Professor	Roberto	Camagni	Full professor of Urban Economics and of Economic Assessment of Urban Transformations, Politecnico di Milano
Italy	Professor	Gaetano	Carmeci	Associate prof. of Econometrics, DEAMS, Un. of Trieste,
Italy	Professor	Laura	Castellucci	Full professor of economic policy,  university of Rome “tor Vergata”, department of Economics and Finance
Italy		Annalisa	Castelli	Associate Professor, University of Cassino
Italy	professor	Giuseppe	Celi	Associate Professor of Economics, University of Foggia, Department of Economics
Italy	Professor	Floriana	Cerniglia	Full Professor, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Milan
Italy	Professor	Sergio	Cesaratto	Full professor of Economics, University of Siena, ,
Italy	Professor	Maria	Rosaria Carillo	University of Naples, “Parthenope”,
Italy	Dr	Allesandro	Cigno	Professor of Economics, University of Florence.
Italy	Professor	Enrica	Chiappero	University of Pavia
Italy	Professor	Giorgio	Colacchio	Associate Professor of Economics, University of Salento, Lecce
Italy	Professor	Ugo	Colombino	Professor of Economics, Dipartimento di Economia e Statistica Cognetti De Martiis, Torino
Italy	Professor	Maurizio	Conti	Department of Economics, University of Genova
Italy	Professor	Marcella	Corsi	Professor of economics, Sapienza University of Rome
Italy	Professor	Terenzio	Cozzi	Emeritous Professor of Political Economy, University of Torino
Italy	Professor	Angelo	Cuva	Docente Diritto Tributario (tax law teacher), Universita Di Palermo
Italy	Professor	Carlo	D’Adda	Emeritus, University of Bologna,
Italy	Professor	Pasquale	De Muro	Professor, Department of Economics, Roma Tre University,
Italy	Professor	Francesco	Devicienti	Associate professor of economics, University of Torino
Italy	Professor	Sebastiano	Fadda	Professor of Economics – Roma Tre University
Italy		Marco	Faillo	Assistant Professor, University of Trento,  marco.faillo@unitn.it
Italy	Professor	Francesco	Farina	Professor of economics University of Siena
Italy	Professor	Carlo	Favero	Professor of quantitative finance and assset pricing bocconi University
Italy	Dr	Paolo	Figini	Associate Professor, Department of Economics, University of Bologna.
Italy	Professor	Alessandro	Flamini	Associate Professor of Economics, University of Pavia
Italy	professor	Massimo	Florio	Professor of Public Economics, Università degli studi di Milano, Milano
Italy	Professor	Mauro	Gallegati	Università Politecnica delle Marche, Ancona,
Italy	Professor	Aldo	Geuna	University of Torino, Italy,
Italy		Debora	Di Gioacchino	Associate Professor, Sapienza University of Rome
Italy	Professor	Vitantonio	Gioia	Full Professor, University of Salento, Lecce
Italy	Professor	Elena	Granaglia	Professor of Public Finance Uniroma3
Italy	professor	Luciano	Greco	Professor of Public Economics, University of Paglia
Italy		Maria	Letizia Giorgetti	Assistant professor,university of milan
Italy	Professor	Benedetto M.	Gui	Professor of Economics, Sophia University Institute (Florence),
Italy		Giullio	Guarini	Assistant Professor, Tuscia University of Viterbo
Italy	Professor	Maria	Cristina Marcuzzo	Professor of Economics, Sapienza, Università di Roma,
Italy	Dr	Alberto	Iozzi	Associate professor of economics, Dipartimento di Economia e Finanza, Università di Roma Tor Vergata
Italy	Professor	Caro	D’Ippoliti	Associate Professor of Economics, Sapienza University of Rome
Italy	Professor	Fiorella	Kostoris	Full Professor in economics Università la Sapienza Roma
Italy	Professor	Mario	Lavezzi	Associate Professor of Economics, University of Palermo
Italy	Professor	Riccardo ‘Jack’	Lucchetti	Professor of Econometrics, Università Politecnica delle Marche
Italy	Professor	Tommaso	Luzzato	Dept. of Economics and Management, Pisa
Italy	Professor	Daniela	Donnini Maccio	Independent Researcher, Ascoli Piceno
Italy	Professor	Cosimo	Magazzino	Roma Tre University
Italy	Professor	Pietro	Masina	University of Naples L’Orientale
Italy	Professor	Fabrizio	Mattesini	Professor of Economics, Chairman of the Department of Economics and Finance, University of Rome, Tor Vergata,
Italy		Giorgio	Negroni	Associate Professor, University of Bologna
Italy	Professor	Giovanna	Nicodano	Professor of Financial Economics, University of Torino
Italy		Chiara	Dalle Nogare	PhD, Aggregate Professor and Research Assistant at University of Brescia
Italy		Chiara	Oldani	Lecturer of Economics, University of Viterbo “La Tuscia”
Italy	Professor	Pippo	Ranci Ortigosa	Retired Professor of Economic Policy, Università Cattolica Milano and EUI Florence
Italy	Professor	Guido	Ortona	Professor (Economics), Università del Piemonte Orientale,
Italy	Professor	Marco	Pagano	Professor of Finance, University of Naples Federico II,
Italy	Professor	Luigi	De Paoli	Full professor, Bocconi University
Italy	professor	Paolo	Panteghini	Full Professor, Università degli Studi di Brescia
Italy		Sergio S.	Parazzini	Associate Professor, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore,
Italy		Giacomo	Pasini	Associate Professor of Economics, Ca’ Foscari University of Venice
Italy	professor	Pasquale	Pazienza	Professor, University of Foggia, Department of Economics
Italy	Professor	Antonio	Pedone	Professor of Public Finance, Sapienza Università di Roma
Italy	Professor	Stefano	Perri	Full professor of political economy, Università degli studi di Macerata.
Italy	Professor	Paolo	Pertile	Associate Professor of Public Economics, University of Verona
Italy	Professor	Carlo	Pietrobelli	Professor of Economics, University Roma Tre
Italy	Professor	Paolo	Pettenati	Economist, Honorary President of ISTAO (A. Olivetti Institute of Economic and Business Studies), Ancona –
Italy	Professor	Giovanni	Piersanti	Full Professor of Economics, University of Teramo
Italy		Paolo	Polidori	Associated Professor, University of Urbino Carlo Bo
Italy	Dr	Veronica	Polin	Researcher, University of Verona
Italy	Professor	Enzo	Pontarollo	Full professor of Industrial Economics, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Milano,
Italy	Dr	Alberto	Franco Pozzolo	Professor of Economics, Università degli Studi del Molise
Italy	Dr	Francesco	Prota	Lecturer in Economics, Università di Bari “Aldo Moro”
Italy	Professor	Luigi	Prosperetti	Professor of Economic Policy, Law School, University of Milan
Italy	Dr	Maurizio	Prosperi	MSc, PhD, Assistant Professor, University of Foggia, Dept. SAFE, Foggia
Italy	Dr	Flavio	Pressacco	Emeritus Professor of Mathematics of Finance, University of Udine
Italy	Professor	Roberta	Rabellotti	Department of Political and Social Sciences, Università di Pavia
Italy	professor	Paolo	Ramazzotti	Professor, Universita’ di Macerata
Italy	Professor	Federico	Revelli	Head of Dept Economics & Statistics Univ Torino
Italy	Professor	Dino	Rizzi	Full professor of public economics, Ca’ Foscari University, Venice,
Italy	Professor	Paolo	Rizzi	Associate Professor of Economic Policy, Università Cattolica di Piacenza,
Italy		Lorenzo	Rocco	Associate Professor, Department of Economics and Management, University of Padova
Italy	Dr	Donato	Romano	Professor, Department of Economics, University of Florence
Italy	Professor	Alessandro	Roncaglia	Professor of Economics, Sapienza University of Rome
Italy		Annalisa	Rosselli	Dipartimento Economia e Finanza, University Rome Tor Vergata, Italy,
Italy	Professor	Riccardo	Rovelli	Professor of Economics, Università di Bologna
Italy	Dr	Giovanni	Ruggieri	Assistant Professor, Palermo University
Italy	Dr	Alberto	Russo	Assistant Professor in Economics, Università Politecnica delle Marche
Italy		Francesco	Flaviano Russo	Assistant Professor of Economics, University of Naples Federico II,
Italy	Professor	Margherita	Russo	Dipartimento di Economia Marco Biagi, Università di Modena e Reggio Emilia
Italy	Dr	Agnese	Sacchi	Assistant professor in Economics, Universitas Mercatorum, Rome
Italy		Marco	Sanfilippo	Associate Professor, Political Economy, University of Bari; Visiting Professor, Globalisation and Development, University of Antwerp; Research Associate, Italian Institute of International Affairs.
Italy	Professor	Enrico	Santarelli	Professor of Economics – Department of Economics, University of Bologna
Italy	Professor	Domenico	Scalera	Professor of Economics, University of Sannio, Benevento
Italy		Stefano	Schiavo	Associate Professor of Economics, University of Trento
Italy	professor	Marcello	Signorelli	Professor of Economic Policy, University of Perugia
Italy	Professor	Annamaria	Simonazzi	Department of Economics and Law, Sapienza University of Rome.
Italy	Professor	Giancarlo	Spagnolo	University of Rome Tor Vergata, SITE, EIEF, CEPR.
Italy	professor	Federico	Spandonaro	Researcher, DEF, Roma
Italy		Elisabetta	Strazzera	Associate Professor in Economics, University of Cagliari
Italy	Professor	Renata	Targetti Lenti	Emeritus, University of Pavia, Italy,
Italy	Professor	Michele	Trimarchi	PhD. Professor of Public Economics, University “Magna Graecia”, Catanzaro
Italy	Professor	Marco	Valente	Associate Professor of Economics, University of L’Aquila
Italy	Professor	Paolo	Vanin	Professor of Economics, University of Bologna
Italy	Professor	Paolo	Varri	Professor of economics, Università Cattolica S.C. Milano
Italy	Professor	Marcella	Veronesi	Associate Professor, University of Verona
Italy	Dr	Luca	Vitali	Researcher, University of Rome ” Tor Vergata”
Italy	Professor	Marco	Vivarelli	Full Professor, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Milano
Italy	professor	Vera	Negri Zamagni	Professor, University of Bologna and Johns Hopkins University, SAIS Europe
Italy	Professor	Gennaro	Zezza	Dipartimento di Economia e Giurisprudenza, Università di Cassino
Italy		Ms. Giovanna	Prennushi	Independent consultant
Italy	Dr	Giovanni	Sulis	University of Cagliari, Sardinia, Italy,
Italy	Professor	Luca	Zarri	Associate Professor, Economics Department, University of Verona
Liberia	Dr	Tanya A.	Garnett	Professor, University of Liberia
Mexico	Mrs	Lucia	Pérez Fragoso	Economist. Consultant.
Mexico	Dr	Alicia	Puyana Mutis	Professor of Economics, Facultad Latinoamericana de Ciencias Sociales FLASCO
Mexico		Hilda	Rodgriguez	Profesora de asignatura. Especialidad El género en la Economía. Facultad de Economía. UNAM.
The Netherlands		J. H.	Paardekooper	MSc, Data Analist, Douglas BN
New Zealand		Prue	Hyman	retired Associate Professor of Economics and Gender/Women’s Studies, Victoria University of Wellington
Portugal		Alexandre	Abreu	Researcher, Centre for African, Asian and Latin American Studies, ISEG-Lisbon School of Economics and Management
Portugal	Dr	Guilherme	Barreto	Economist, Matosinhos
Portugal		Eugénia	Pires	Economist, IAC, Lisbon
Senegal		Cheikh	Tidiane	SARR International Consultant,
South Africa	Mr	Gilad	Isaacs	Research Coordinator, CSID, School of Economic and Business Sciences, University of the Witwatersrand,
South Africa	Dr	Nicolas	Pons-Vignon	Director of a research unit in economics, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesberg
Spain		Jose	Moises Martin Carretero	Economistas Frente a la Crisis
Spain		Miguel	Casares	Associate Professor of Economics, Universidad Publica de Navarra, Pamplona
Spain		Alba	Del Villar	PhD student, Universidad Pública de Navarra, Pamplona
Spain		Jorge	Garcia-Arias	Associate Professor, Department of Economics, University of Leon
Spain		Antonio	Ladrón-de-Duevara Martínez	Associate professor in Marketing. Pompeu Fabra University, Barcelona
Spain		José	Ángel Moreno	Member of the Board of Economistas sin Fronteras
Spain		Joan	Josep Bosch	Economist. Public University of Navarre Teacher in Economics Degree.
Spain		Jorge	Fabra	Economistas Frente a la Crisis, Madrid
Spain	Professor	Juan	Gimeno	Full professor of Economics – UNED  –
Spain	Dr	Javier	Hualde	Associate Professor, Department of Economics, Universidad Pública de Navarra,
Spain	Mr	Vicente	Rios Ibáñez	PhD Student in Economics, Universidad Pública de Navarra, Spain
Spain	Dr	Belen	Iraizoz	Associate Professor, Universidad Pública de Navarra, Pampiona
Spain		Juan-Carlos	Longás	Departamento de Economía. Universidad Pública de Navarra.
Spain		María	López	Economist. ministry of economy. españa.
Spain		Bruno	Estrada Lopez	Economist, advisor of the General Secretary of CCOO (Spain)
Spain		Ángeles	González	Finance Manager, OCU EDICIONES S.A., Madrid
Spain	professor	Andreu	Mas-Colell	Professor Emeritus, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona
Spain	Professor	Fabio	Monsalve	Professor of Economics, University is Castilla-La Mancha, Albacete
Spain		Pilar	Martí Montolío	Licenciada en Ciencias Económicas en Universidad Valencia,Asesora contable y fiscal
Spain	Professor	Rafael	Muñoz-De-Bustillo	Professor of Applied Economics, University of Salamanca
Spain		José	Ramón Mariño	Economist, DFA, and ATTAC, VITORIA-GASTEIZ
Spain		Delfina	Rossi	Economist from the Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona; Researcher of The University of Texas Inequality Project.
Spain	Professor	Federico	Steinberg	Senior Analyst, Royal Elcano Institute and Economics Professor, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid.
Spain		Ricardo	Garcia Zaldivar	Economist PHD, Retired teacher – Carlos III de Madrid University
Spain	Mr	Isaac	Royo Silvestre	Engineer, Universidad Pública de Navarra, Spain,
Spain		M.d.Mar	Rubio-Varas	Associate Professor of Economic History, Institute for Advanced Research in Business and Economics. Public University of Navarre
Spain	Dr	Jordi	Campas Velasco	Knowledge Hubs manager, Euskampus Fundazioa, Bilbao
Spain	Professor	Idoye	Zabala	Full professor, University of Basque Country (UPV/EHU).
Spain		Miguel	Casares	Associate Professor of Economics, Universidad Publica de Navarra, Pamplona, Spain
Spain	Sr.	Santiago	Sánchez Alegría	Teacher, Public University of Navarra, Spain,
Spain/Ibiza		Pilar	Hernández Ribera
Spain		Hugo	Valle	Fellow Researcher, University of Vigo, Spain.
Spain		Caterina	Calsamiglia	Research Professor in CEMFI and Barcelona GSE
Spain		Joan Esteban	Marquillas	Research Professor at Institut d’Anàlisi Economica (CSIC) and Barcelona GSE, Secretary General of the International Economic Association
Spain	Dr	Alberto	Zamora	retired, UPNA, Pamplona
Sri Lanka		Muttukrishna	Sarvananthan	Ph.D. Principal Researcher, Point Pedro Institute of Development (PPID), Point Pedro, Northern Province
Switzerland		Janine	Berg	Senior Economist, International Labour Organization, Geneva
Switzerland		Dharam	Ghai	former Director, UN Research Institute for Social Development
Switzerland	Dr	Katja	Hujo	Senior Research Coordinator, UNRISD
Switzerland		Manuel F.	Montes	Senior Advisor on Finance and Development, South Centre, Geneva,
Switzerland	Professor	Sergio	Rossi	Full Professor of Macroeconomics and Monetery Economics, University of Fribourg
Turkey		Tulay	Atay-Avsar	PhD, Assist. Prof., Mustafa Kemal University, Faculty of Communication, Antakya, Hatay, Turkey.
Turkey		Ibrahim Enes	Ozkan	Istanbul University Department of Economics, Turkey
UK	Dr		Alami	Senior Teaching Fellow, SOAS University of London
UK	Dr	Antonio	Andreoni	Lecturer in Economics, SOAS University of London
UK	Dr	Ha-Joon	Chang	Reader, Faculty of Economics, University of Cambridge
UK	Dr	Tommaso	Ciarli	Senior Research Fellow, SPRU, University of Sussex
UK		John	Christensen	Executive Director, Tax Justice Network, United Kingdom,
UK		Alex	Cobham	Director of Research, Tax Justice Network; and Visiting Fellow, King’s College London
UK	Professor	Mike	Danson	Professor of Enterprise Policy, Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh
UK	Professor	Nigel	Driffield	Professor of International Business, warwick business school,
UK	Professor	Diane	Elson	Emeritus Professor, Dept of Sociology, Essex University
UK	Professor	Valpy	Fitzgerald	Emeritus Professor of International Development Finance, University of Oxford
UK	Dr	Matteo M	Galizzi	Assistant Professor of Behavioural Science, London School of Economics, London
UK	Dr	Sara	Gorgoni	Senior Lecturer, University of Greenwich
UK	Professor	Andrew	Goudie	University of Strathclyde, Former Chief Economist, Scottish Government, Edinburgh
UK	Professor Sir	John	Hills	London School of Economics
UK	Professor	Susan	Himmelweit	Emeritus Professor of Economics Open University
UK	Dr	Chris	Jones	Senior Lecturer in Economics, Aston University, Birmingham
UK	Professor	Mushtaq	Khan	Professor of Economics, SOAS University of London
UK	Professor	Simona	Iammarino	Professor of Economic Geography and Head of Department, London School of Economics, Department of Geography & Environment, London,
UK	Dr	Neil	Lancastle	Senior Lecturer, De Montfort University, Leicester
UK	Dr	Zofia	Lapniewska	Post Doctoral Fellow, Glasgow Caledonian University
UK	Professor	Dennis	Leech	Emeritus Professor of Economics, Warwick University
UK	Dr	Duncan	Lindo	Research Fellow, University of Leeds
UK		Henry	Lucas	Emeritus Fellow, Institute of Development Studies UK.
UK	Professor	Stephen	Machin	Professor, London School of Economics
UK	Dr	Samuel	Marden	Lecturer in Economics, University of Sussex
UK	Dr	Thomas	Marois	Senior Lecturer Development Studies, SOAS University of London
UK	Mr Owen		Tudor,	Head of EU & International Relations, Trades Union Congress, UK
UK	Professor	Mariana	Mazzucato	Professor, SPRU, University of Sussex
UK	Dr	Helen	Mercer	Senior Lecturer, University of Greenwich
UK	Dr	Satoshi	Miyamura	Lecturer in the Economy of Japan, SOAS London
UK	Professor	Simon	Mohun	Emeritus Professor of Political Economy, Queen Mary University of London;
UK	Professor	Richard	Murphy	Professor of Practice on International Political Economy, City University, London
UK	Professor	Frederick	Nixson	Emeritus Professor of Development Economics, University of Manchester
UK	Professor	Ozlem	Onaran	Professor of Economics, Director of Greenwich Political Economy Research Centre, University of Greenwich, London
UK	Dr	Mary-Paz	Arrieta Paredes	Lecturer, University of Greenwich
UK	Dr	Jeff	Powell	Senior Lecturer, Economics, Department of International Business & Economics, University of Greenwich
UK	Dr	Tomás	Rotta	Senior Lecturer, Economics
UK	Dr	Pritam	Singh	Department of International Business & Economics
UK	Dr	Sara	Stevano	University of Greenwich
UK	Professor	Frances	Stewart	Professor Emeritus, University of Oxford
UK	Dr	Yama	Temouri	Lecturer, Aston University, UK,
UK	Professor	Mehmet	Ugur	Professor of Economics and Institutions, University of Greenwich, Greenwich Political Economy Research Centre
UK	Professor	Tommaso	Valletti	Imperial College Business School
UK	Dr	Sophie	van Huellen	Lecturer, SOAS, University of London
UK	Dr	Elisa	Van Waeyenberge	Lecturer, SOAS, University of London
UK		Ulrich	Volz	Head of Department of Economics, SOAS London
UK	Dr	Kevin	Watkins	Director Overseas Development Institute, London
UK	Professor	John	Weeks	Emeritus Professor, Department of Development Studies, SOAS, University of London.
UK	Dr	Vassilis	Monastiriotis	Associate Professor, London School of Economics
UK	Professor Sir	Richard	Jolly	Institute of Development Studies, University of Sussex
Uruguay	Dr	Manuel	de la Iglesia Caruncho	Training Center Director, Spanish Agency for International Cooperation, Montevideo
USA	Dr	Radhika	Balakrishnan	Professor Rutgers University, New Brunswick
USA	Professor	Lourdes	Beneria	Professor Emerita, Cornell University
USA	Professor	Gunseli	Berik	Economics Department, University of Utah, USA
USA	Professor	David	Blanchflower	Bruce V. Rauner Professor of Economics Dartmouth
USA	Professor	Al	Campbell	Emeritus Professor of Economics, University of Utah
USA	Professor	Kimberly A.	Clausing	Professor of Economics, Reed College, Portland, Oregon,
USA	Mr	Matthew	Cummins	Policy Specialist (Public Finance), United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF)
USA	Professor	Angus	Deaton	Dwight D Eisenhower Professor of Economics and International Affairs, Princeton University
USA	Asst Professor	Bilge	Erten	Assistant Professor, Northeastern University
USA	Professor	Ilene	Grabel	Josef Korbel School of Int’l Studies, University of Denver
USA	Professor	Martin	Guzman	Research Fellow at Columbia University Business School – Associate Professor at University of Buenos Aires
USA	Professor	John	Hoddinott	H.E. Babcock Professor of Food & Nutrition Economics and Policy, Cornell University, Ithaca NY
USA	Professor	Dorene	Isenburg	Professor of Economics, University of Redlands, Redlands, CA
USA	Professor	Ravi	Kanbur	Cornell University
USA	Professor Emerita	Mary C.	King	Economist, Portland State University, Portland, Oregon
USA		Nicholas	Lusiani	Director, Human rights in economic policy program, Center for Economic and Social Rights
USA	Professor	Nora	Lustig	Samuel Z Stone Professor of Latin American Economics, Tulane University, New Orleans, LA
USA	Professor	Arthur	MacEwan	Emeritus Professor, University of Massachusetts, Boston
USA		Elaine	McCrate	Associate Professor, Economics, University of Vermont
USA	Professor	Branko	Milanovic	Presidential Professor, Graduate Center CUNY, New York.
USA		Tracy	Mott	Associate Professor, Economics,  University of Denver, CO
USA		Jose	Antonio Ocampo	Professor Columbia University. Chair of the Independent Commission on InternationalCorporate Taxation (ICRICT)
USA	Professor	Laurie	Nisonoff	Professor Emerita 0f Economics, Hampshire College
USA		Aaron	Pacitti	Associate Professor of Economics, Siena College,
USA	Professor	Spencer J.	Pack	Professor of Economics, Connecticut College,
USA		Mark	Paul	Research Affiliate, Samuel DuBois Cook Center on Social Equity, Duke University,
USA	Professor	Thomas	Pogge	Leitner Professor of Philosophy and International Affairs and founding Director of the Global Justice Programe, Yale University
USA		Smita	Ramnarain	Assistant Professor, Siena College, NY
USA	Dr	Smriti	Rao	Associate Professor, Economics and Global Studies, Assumption College
USA	Professor	Charles P.	Rock	Ph.D. Prof.of Econ., Rollins College, Winter Park, Florida
USA	Professor	Dani	Rodrik	Ford Foundation Professor of International Political Economy, John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard
USA	Professor	Jeffrey D.	Sachs	Director of the Earth Institute, Columbia University
USA	Professor	Stephanie	Seguino	Professor of Economics, University of Vermont
USA	Professor	Cecilia Ann	Winters	PhD. Professor Emerita, Manhattanville College, NY
USA		Richard D.	Wolff	New School University
USA	Dr	June	Zaccone	Assoc. Prof. of Economics Emerita, Hofstra University, NY
USA		Gabriel	Zucman	Assistant Professor of economics at UC Berkeley, California
France	Professor	Thomas	Piketty	Professeur à l’Ecole d’économie de Paris (PSE) et directeur d’études à l’EHESS, Paris School of Economics
France	Chercheur	Henri	Sterdyniak	Observatoire français des conjonctures économiques
France		Jean	Gadrey	Professeur honoraire d’économie à l’Université Lille, Observatoire français des conjonctures économiques, Paris
France	Professor	Olivier	Blanchard	Massachussets Institute of Technology
Wales	Professor	Calvin	Jones	Professor of Economics, University of Cardiff
		Samir	Bouzekri	Unicef
		Paul	Ladd	Director, United Nations Research Institute for Social Development
	Dr	Wouter	van Ginneken	Ex-ILO Official
		Julio	Rodriguez Lopez	Docor CC.Economicas, Vocal Consejo Superior de Estadistica del INE,
	Professor	Radhika	Balakrishnan	Rutgers University,
		James S.	Henry, Esq.	Senior Fellow, Col. U; Global Justice Fellow, Yale; Sr. Advisor, TJN
		Teresa García	Marco	Spain
	Dr.	Valeria	Esquivel	Research Coordinator on Gender and Development, UNRISD
		Eunice	Musiime	Executive Director Akina Mama wa Afrika Pan-African NGO for women

 

 

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