About

Wilson Prichard
Advisory board member
Associate Professor of Global Affairs and Political Science: University of Toronto
Wilson Prichard is Associate Professor of Global Affairs and Political Science at the University of Toronto, Chair of the Local Government Revenue Initiative (LoGRI) and Research Fellow at the International Centre for Tax and Development (ICTD). He was previously founding Research Director, and then Executive Director, of the ICTD. His work focuses on the political economy of tax reform in lower-income countries, with a particular focus on strategies to support successful sub-national revenue collection in sub-Saharan Africa.
He is the author of Taxation, Responsiveness and Accountability in Sub-Saharan Africa (Cambridge University Press, 2015), Taxing Africa (Zed Books, 2018) – named a Foreign Affairs best book of 2019 –, Innovations in Tax Compliance: Building Trust, Navigating Politics and Tailoring Reform and a variety of academic articles. He regularly engages with governments, donors and civil society about the design of tax reform programs, and how to strengthen links between revenue raising and public benefits, including having led the design and implementation of innovative and successful property tax reform programs in Sierra Leone, and supporting reform planning and design in more than a dozen other countries.