Location Downham, Cambridgeshire, United Kingdom Regions Europe, Middle East, and Africa (EMEA) Gender Male
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Richard Murphy is a chartered accountant and a political economist. He is professor of practice in international political economy at City University, London. Murphy is an author of many of the proposals made by the Green New Deal group in the U.K.
Murphy is the founder of the Tax Justice Network and the director of Tax Research LLP. He has worked
with TUC, PCS, and others on the tax gap in the United Kingdom.
Murphy has been responsible for introducing many new issues into debates on tax policy. In particular he created the new accounting concept of Country-by-Country reporting that is now being considered for adoption by the European Union, Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development, International Accounting Standards Board, and others.
He has appeared in many radio and television documentaries on taxation issues. He has also presented written and oral evidence to select committee committees of the House of Commons and House of Lords.
Murphy has been a visiting fellow at Portsmouth University Business School, the Centre for Global Political Economy at the University of Sussex, and at the Tax Research Institute, University of Nottingham.
Murphy is a co-author of ‘Tax Havens: How Globalization Really Works‘, Cornell University Press, 2009 and author of ‘The Courageous State’, Searching Finance, 2011, and ‘Over Here and Under Taxed‘, Vintage Books, 2013.
Richard Murphy is a graduate in economics and accountancy from Southampton University.
