GDI Lecture: Tax and Development: The OECD Experience, Joseph Stead
| Dates: | 26 November 2025 |
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| Times: | 16:30 - 18:00 |
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| What is it: | Lecture |
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| Organiser: | Global Development Institute |
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| Who is it for: | University staff, External researchers, Adults, Current University students |
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Speaker: Joseph Stead, OECD Centre for Tax Policy and Administration
The Seville Commitment emphasized the pivotal role of tax revenues as the largest source of financing for development. Realising the optimal level of tax revenues to support development is a complex challenge combining policy and administration challenges, as well as domestic and international dimensions.
The OECD has been working with developing countries on tax issues for over twenty years, growing from modest training programmes to a multifaceted approach combining integration of developing countries in the development of international tax standards and data sets, with an significantly expanded capacity building programme, as well as a range of research and analysis on key issues.
This lecture will provide an overview of some of the key issues on tax and development, as well as reflections on the evolution of the OECD role and priorities for the future.
Joseph Stead is a Senior Policy Analyst on Tax and Development in the OECD Centre for Tax Policy and Administration. He leads the OECD work on tax morale, focussing on what drives voluntary compliance in developing countries. He also works on the role of development cooperation in improving tax policy and administration in developing countries, including co-ordinating the OECD’s tax capacity building programme. Prior to joining the OECD he worked at the NGO Christian Aid, leading aspects of their economic justice policy, including tax, trade and debt policy. He was also the co-chair of the board of the Jubilee Debt Campaign (now Debt Justice).
Previously Joseph worked in the UK Civil Service, working on asylum and immigration law in the Home Office, and trade and development policy in the Foreign Office. He holds a Master’s degree in African Politics from the School of Oriental and African Studies in London, and a politics degree from the University of Nottingham.
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