George R. Zodrow
Vitae

George R. Zodrow is Professor of Economics and Rice Scholar, Tax and Expenditure Policy Program, Baker Institute for Public Policy, at Rice University. He also holds an appointment as International Research Fellow at the Centre on Business Taxation at Oxford University.  His research interests are tax reform in the U.S. and in developing countries and state and local public finance, and his articles have appeared in numerous publications and books on taxation.  Zodrow is currently editor of the National Tax Journal and recently served as the editor of the “Policy Watch” section of International Tax and Public Finance.  He is the author of State Sales and Income Taxes and the co-editor of Fundamental Tax Reform: Issues, Choices and Implications and United States Tax Reform in the 21^st Century.  He was a visiting economist at the U.S. Treasury Office of Tax Analysis in 1984-85 and has participated in tax reform projects in numerous countries and U.S. states.