Markus Meinzer

Markus Meinzer

Dr. Markus Meinzer is Director of Financial Secrecy & Governance at the Tax Justice Network and is the lead researcher on the Financial Secrecy and Corporate Tax Haven Indices. He authored the book “Tax Haven Germany” (“Steueroase Deutschland”), published in 2015 at C.H. Beck, and was TJN’s principal investigator on the COFFERS EU research project under Horizon 2020 (Combating Fiscal Fraud and Empowering Regulators). Since September 2020, he serves as a member of the EU Commission Expert Group “Platform for Tax Good Governance, Aggressive Tax Planning and Double Taxation” and he previously served as an expert member of the Commission Expert Group on automatic exchange of financial account information. He has published widely on international tax policy and financial secrecy regulation. He obtained his PhD in economics at Utrecht University in 2019 (“Countering cross-border tax evasion and avoidance. An assessment of OECD policy design from 2008 to 2018”). Prior to this, he studied development economics as a component of his political science degree at the Free University of Berlin, and was an exchange student at the University of Sussex (UK).

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