Our Experts
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Abir Mandal is a Senior Policy Analyst with the Tax Foundation’s Center for State Tax Policy, where he conducts research on state tax competitiveness, business taxation, and property tax structure. He co-authors the State Tax Competitiveness Index, the Tax Foundation’s flagship annual study ranking the tax systems of all 50 states. His empirical research analyzes how state tax structures shape interstate migration of households and capital, as well as local government finance.
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Adam Hoffer is the Director of Excise Tax Policy at the Tax Foundation. Dr. Hoffer earned his PhD in Economics from West Virginia University and his undergraduate degree from Washington & Jefferson College.
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Alan Cole is a Senior Economist with Tax Foundation’s Center for Global Tax Policy. His areas of focus include business taxes, cross-border taxes, and macroeconomics. In addition to work at Tax Foundation, Alan has served on the Joint Economic Committee and with The Conference Board.
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Alex Durante is a Senior Economist at the Tax Foundation, working on federal tax policy and model development. Alex worked as a research assistant at the Federal Reserve Board and served as a staff economist on the Council of Economic Advisers.
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Alex Mengden is an Economist at the Tax Foundation, where he focuses on international tax issues and tax policy in Europe. He holds a BA in philosophy and economics from the University of Bayreuth and an MSc in economics from the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich.
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Alex Muresianu is a Senior Policy Analyst at the Tax Foundation, focused on federal tax policy. Previously working on the federal team as an intern in the summer of 2018 and as a research assistant in summer 2020. He attended Tufts University, graduating with a degree in economics and minors in finance and political science.
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Cristina Enache writes on the economics of tax policy and is the author of the Spanish Regional Tax Competitiveness Index. She was formerly the Director of Research at Civismo, an economic research organization based in Spain. She also served as head of research at Institución Futuro, a regional think tank based in Navarra in northern Spain. She is also currently Secretary-General at the World Taxpayers Associations and General Manager of the Spanish Taxpayers Union, which she joined in 2016.
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Daniel Bunn is President and CEO of the Tax Foundation. Daniel has been with the organization since 2018 and, prior to becoming President, successfully built its Center for Global Tax Policy, expanding the Tax Foundation’s reach and impact around the world. Prior to joining the Tax Foundation, Daniel worked in the United States Senate at the Joint Economic Committee.
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Erica York is Vice President of Federal Tax Policy with Tax Foundation’s Center for Federal Tax Policy. Her analysis has been featured in The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, Politico, and other national and international media outlets.
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Garrett Watson is Director of Policy Analysis at the Tax Foundation, where he conducts research on federal and state tax policy. His work has been featured in The Washington Post, The Atlantic, Politico, the Associated Press and other major outlets.
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Dr. Huaqun Li is Senior Economist, Director of Modeling Projects at the Tax Foundation. She focuses on developing and maintaining the Foundation’s Taxes and Growth Model, which models the budgetary and economic effects of changes to federal tax policy.
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Jacob Macumber-Rosin is an Excise Tax Policy Analyst with the Tax Foundation. Jacob holds a BS in economics (politics and the economy) as well as a BS in civic and economic thought and leadership from Arizona State University.
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Janelle Fritts is a Senior Policy Analyst with the Tax Foundation’s Center for State Tax Policy. She is the lead researcher on the annual State Tax Competitiveness Index and serves as a resource to policymakers in their efforts to modernize and improve the structures of their state tax codes. Her work has been cited in The New York Times, the Associated Press, Bloomberg, and numerous state media outlets across the country.
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Jared Walczak is a Senior Fellow at the Tax Foundation, where he spent five years as Vice President of State Projects, and president of Walczak Policy Consulting.
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Katherine Loughead is the Vice President of State Tax Policy at the Tax Foundation, where she oversees the state tax policy team’s research agenda and serves as a resource to policymakers in their efforts to modernize and improve the structure of their state tax codes.
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Martha Caziero is Head of Policy at Tax Foundation Europe, where she researches European tax policy matters. She holds a PhD in tax law from the Vienna University of Economics and Business, a master’s degree in law from the University of Bologna, and an LLM in International Business Tax Law from Tilburg University. She has authored several academic papers and a book, The Taxing Powers of the European Union: A Legal Analysis of the Levying of EU Taxes, published by IBFD.
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Nicole Fox is a Policy Analyst with the Center for State Tax Policy at the Tax Foundation, where she serves as a resource to policymakers in their efforts to modernize and improve the structure of their state tax codes.
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Richard DiSalvo is a Senior Economist with Tax Foundation’s Center for Federal Tax Policy. Previously, Richard held senior economist positions at the US Congress Joint Economic Committee and at the New York City Independent Budget Office. In these roles, he analyzed federal, state, and local tax policies. Dr. DiSalvo has also taught economics and statistics at Princeton University’s School of Public and International Affairs.
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Scott Hodge is President Emeritus of the Tax Foundation, which he led as President for over two decades, between 2000 and 2022. Scott Hodge is recognized as one of Washington’s leading experts on tax policy, the federal budget, and government spending.
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ExpertSean Bray
Vice President of Global Tax Policy at Tax Foundation and Policy Director of Tax Foundation EuropeSean Bray is Vice President of Global Tax Policy at Tax Foundation and Policy Director of Tax Foundation Europe, where he researches international tax issues with a focus on tax policy in Europe. Prior to joining the Tax Foundation, Sean Bray worked in the United States Senate on tech, telecom, and trade policy.
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Stephen J. Entin is a Senior Fellow Emeritus at the Tax Foundation. Previously, he was President and Executive Director at the Institute for Research on the Economics of Taxation (IRET), a pro-free market economic public policy research organization based in Washington DC.
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Dr. William McBride is the Chief Economist & Stephen J. Entin Fellow in Economics at the Tax Foundation, where he oversees major research projects primarily related to reforming the federal tax code, advancing sound tax policy, and improving the federal government’s fiscal outlook.
