John Christensen is the former economic adviser to the British Crown Dependency of Jersey, a pre-eminent British tax haven. Having originally trained as a forensic fraud investigator, he is now the director of the Tax Justice Network, a member of the OECD Task Force on Tax and Development, and a board member of Washington, D.C.-based New Rules for Global Finance.
-
Published in: openDemocracyUK7 ways the ‘Finance Curse’ harms the UK – how can we lift it?The City of London is a huge drag on the UK’s real economy. But we can – and must – lift the 'Finance Curse'.
-
-
Published in: openDemocracyUKTen years in the campaign for tax justice - we have a long way to goFor more than a decade John Christensen has been at the forefront of the challenge to offshore finance, tax...
-
Published in: openDemocracyUKThe Finance Curse - introductionPaying billions in tax revenues, the City would surely be an asset to any country. Wouldn't it? A new book, The...