Professor Michael Devereux is Professor of Business Taxation at the Said Business School in the University of Oxford, a professorial fellow of Oriel College Oxford, and a co-director of the MSc in Taxation in the Oxford Law Faculty. He has recently stepped down as Associate Dean of the School. He is an economist who previously held prof-essorial positions at the Universities of Keele and Warwick and has also been a pro-gramme director at the Institute for Fiscal Studies. He was the President of the Inter-national Institute for Public Finance until 2015 and is currently an Honorary Presi-dent. He is Research Director of the European Tax Policy Forum and a member of the Board of Advisors of the International Tax Policy Forum. He is also an Honorary Fel-low of the Chartered Institute of Taxation and Research Fellow of IFS, CEPR and CE-Sifo. He has written widely on business taxation in academic and professional jour-nals and has edited Fiscal Studies and International Tax and Public Finance. He is currently ranked by REPEC as sixth in the world amongst economics researchers in the field of Public Finance, and first amongst researchers outside the United States.