South African Tax Performance: Some Perspectives and International Comparisons

Graham Glenday is Professor of the Practice Emeritus of Public Policy at DCID.  Before retiring in August 2018, he was co-director of the International Taxation Program, PARM, and BUDGET programs. He is currently working on a range of issues relating to public investment management in the context of climate change and state owned enterprises.  He came to Duke in July 2001 from Harvard University where he was Director of the Public Finance Group in the Kennedy School of Government and earlier in the Harvard Institute for International Development. He has over 35 years of international professional experience in public finance, acting as an advisor in tax policy and administration reforms, public investment management and other fiscal matters to over 30 countries in Africa, Asia, Turkey and elsewhere including co-ordination of the successful Tax Modernization Program in Kenya. Earlier he served as Assistant Director of Tax Policy Analysis in the Department of Finance in the Government of Canada. Glenday has also published research and taught graduate courses and executive workshops in taxation, public budgeting and project appraisal matters from 1985 onward. Glenday was a Rhodes Scholar at Oxford University and has a Ph.D. in Public Policy from Harvard University.