Dr Parthasarathi Shome is a Distinguished Professor at St Joseph’s Institute of Management. He is the Founder Chairman, International Tax Research and Analysis Foundation (ITRAF), Bengaluru, India. He was Visiting Senior Fellow, London School of Economics in recent years. Earlier, he was Adviser (Minister of State) to the Indian Finance Minister, and chaired the Tax Administration Reform Commission (TARC). Before that, he was Chief Economist, UK Revenue and Customs; Chief of Tax Policy, IMF; and Professor, American University, Washington DC. He chaired India’s Ninth and Tenth Five Year Plan Task Forces on tax policy and administration. He was Director of National Institute of Public Finance and Policy (NIPFP) and International Council for Research on International Economic Relations (ICRIER), New Delhi, India.

His publications in peer reviewed journals include Journal of Economic Theory (United States), Journal of Public Economics (Netherlands), IMF Staff Papers, National Tax Journal (US), Oxford Economic Papers (UK), Oxford Review of Economic Policy (UK), Public Finance (Europe), Public Finance Quarterly (US), and several other international and national journals. His edited and own books are from Business Standard Publishers, Cambridge University Press, CenTax, International Monetary Fund, Lexis Nexis, OakBridge, Orient Blackswan, Oxford University Press, Routledge, Springer, and Wolters Kluwer. He received Brazil’s highest civilian honour, Commander of the Order of the Southern Cross, for his contributions to Brazilian fiscal reform, and the Jeanne S. Mattersdorf Award of the National Tax Association of America as “an outstanding student in the field of taxation and public finance” for his Ph.D. thesis on the incidence of the corporation income tax. He participates regularly in international debate and discussions on international taxations and is invited to speak across the globe.

For more details see Shome CV.