Peter Evans | Chair
Peter Evans is a social development and governance specialist with 25 years of experience across international development, public policy, and social and political research. Understanding and addressing corruption has been a consistent theme throughout his career, including two decades spent working in Tanzania, India, Malawi, and Bangladesh. He holds a PhD in medical geography, focusing on urban health in Tanzania. His approach to comprehending and resolving governance challenges involves merging technical and political strategies.
Having devoted two decades to DFID/FCDO, from 2014 onward, he led the commissioning team for Governance, Conflict, Inclusion, and Humanitarian research. In this capacity, he formulated and supervised the Anti-Corruption Evidence (ACE) program, in addition to overseeing various other research initiatives covering topics like applied political economy, taxation, urban centers, combatting gender disparity, addressing violence against women and girls (VAWG), migration, crime, and conflict.
Antonio Savoia | Chair
Antonio Savoia is Reader in Development Economics at the University of Manchester and Non-resident Senior Fellow at UNU-WIDER where he has worked on Domestic Revenue Mobilisation.
As a Non-Resident Senior Research Fellow at UNU-WIDER, Dr Savoia is currently engaged in the UNU-WIDER project Fiscal states – the origins and developmental implications.
He has worked at the University of Exeter, the University of Reading, the Università di Salerno, and the University of Bath.
Marina Nistotskaya | Presenter
Marina Nistotskaya is Associate Professor of Political Science and Director of the Quality of Government Institute at University of Gothenburg, Sweden. Her research focuses on how political institutions affect human wellbeing.
Within this broad topic she has studied the effects of state capacity and democracy on taxation and the provision of public goods. Her recent publication in Journal of Institutional Economics examines the impact state-administered property rights on land on tax revenue in Sub-Saharan Africa.
Odd-Helge Fjeldstad | Presenter
Odd-Helge Fjeldstad holds a PhD in economics from the Norwegian School of Economics. He has more than 30 years of experience in academic and applied development economics research in East and Southern Africa, with a focus on the political economy of taxation and reform.
His work has involved long-term collaboration with research institutions in Africa. He has published widely, both scholarly and policy-oriented, on taxation and development.
Philip Kargbo | Discussant
Philip M. Kargbo is the Senior Director of Monitoring, Research and Planning at the National Revenue Authority in Sierra Leone, where he directs research on revenue mobilisation, and leads corporate planning, statistics and revenue forecasting. He directs and conducts impact analysis of proposed revenue-related policies and monitors institutional deliverables. He has also been the focal point for international partners providing technical assistance to the National Revenue Authority.
Philip is a Development Economist and holds a PhD in Development Policy and Management from the University of Manchester since 2012. He is married with 4 kids.
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