Ruud de Mooij

Ruud de Mooij is Division Chief of the Tax Policy Division in the IMF’s Fiscal Affairs Department. The Division delivers an intensive program of capacity development in tax policy in IMF member countries; performs analytical work on topical tax policy issues; and supports IMF country teams on tax-related matters. Before joining the IMF, Mr. De Mooij was Professor of Public Economics at Erasmus University in Rotterdam. He has published extensively on tax issues, including in the American Economic Review and the Journal of Public Economics. His current research focuses on income taxation, international tax issues, and the corrective role of tax. Mr. De Mooij is also a research fellow at the University of Oxford, the University of Bergen, ZEW in Mannheim, and at the CESifo network in Munich.