Who is James S. Henry?

James S. Henry is the author of The price of Offshore revisited, in which he calculates that income revenue to governments is lost on more than ten percent of global wealth, that is  20 to 31 trillion dollars. He is chairman of the Global Alliance for Tax Justice. Henry is a leading economist, attorney and investigative journalist who has written extensively about global development, economic, technology, and tax issues. He has served as Director of Economic Research (chief economist), McKinsey & Co.

As an investigative journalist, Henry’s articles have numerous publications, including Forbes, The Wall Street Journal, The New Republic, The Nation, The New York Times, The Washington Post, US News, Manhattan Inc., Harpers, The Washington Monthly, Fortune, Business Week, Newsweek, Time, The Conference Board, The Tax Lawyer, Jornal do Brasil, The Manila Chronicle, La Nacion, El Financiero, and Slate. James Henry also wrote Blood Bankers and Pirate Bankers.

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Mr. Henry is an honors graduate of Harvard College (Magna Cum Laude, Social Studies ’72; Detur Prize; Phi Beta Kappa), Harvard Law School (J.D., Honors, 1976); Harvard Graduate School of Arts and Sciences (MS, Economics, 1978; ABD); Danforth Fellow; and “Nader Raider.”

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