Jason Ward founded the Centre for International Corporate Tax Accountability & Research (CICTAR) and is based in the Blue Mountains west of Sydney. For the last three years, Jason was included in the International Tax Review’s list of the 50 most influential people on tax policy. He was born in England, spent his early life living in Africa and the Middle East, and immigrated to Australia from the US in 2012. Jason has an MPhil from the Institute of Development Studies (IDS) at the University of Sussex and has decades of experience conducting strategic corporate research for global unions. When not unpicking the corporate structures and tax avoidance practices of multinationals, Jason enjoys long hikes in the surrounding wilderness.