Krishen Mehta is a former member of the World BEYOND War’ Advisory Board. He is a writer, lecturer, and speaker on international tax justice and global inequality. Prior to making tax justice his primary focus, he was a partner with PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) and worked in their offices in New York, London, and Tokyo. His role has included PwC’s US operations in Japan, Singapore, Malaysia, Taiwan, Korea, China, and Indonesia, including 140 American companies doing business in Asia. Krishen is a Director at the Tax Justice Network, and a Senior Global Justice Fellow at Yale University. He serves on the Advisory Board of Aspen Institute’s Business and Society Program, and is a member of the Asia Advisory Council of Human Rights Watch. He is on the Social Science Foundation that advises the Korbel School of International Studies at the University of Denver. He has also been a Trustee of the Institute of Current World Affairs in Washington, DC. Krishen has been an Adjunct Professor at American University, and a featured speaker at the Fletcher School of Law and diplomacy at Tufts University in Boston and at the University of Tokyo in Japan. He also hosted Capstone workshops for graduate students at the School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA) at Columbia University. From 2010-2012, Krishen was the Co-Chairman of the Advisory Board of Global Financiality (GFI), a research and support group based in Washington, DC, and engaged in the process of stemming illicit financial flows from developing countries. He is the co-editor of Global Tax Fairness published by Oxford University Press in 2016.
