Ceremonial Hall

Krishen Mehta

Dr. Anne Klaeysen Presides

 

What can be done to ensure that our financial institutions and multi-national companies are not above the law?

Why do these groups use tax havens so extensively and is such use in the public interest? Is our legislative structure adapted to the interests or needs of these groups? To what extent are the developed nations, US included, part of a system that deprives both rich and poor nations of much needed tax revenues? If tax and social justice are related, can some remedial steps be taken? Some of these challenges will be addressed during the talk.

Krishen Mehta is a former partner with PwC and is now Co-Chairman of the Advisory Board of Global Financial Integrity at the Center for International Policy in Washington DC. He is on the Asia Advisory Council of Human Rights Watch, and on the Board of Aspen Institute’s Business and Society Program. Krishen has been interviewed on issues of tax justice by the Carnegie Council for Ethics in International Affairs, and has published in various newspapers and journals. Krishen is currently an Adjunct Professor at American University, and is a regular speaker at the GMAP program of the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University.