Gabriel Zucman

Gabriel Zucman is an Assistant Professor of Economics at the University of California, Berkeley who specializes in inequality, wealth and taxation. In his book, The Hidden Wealth of Nations, Professor Zucman shows that about 8 percent of the world’s household financial wealth is held in offshore tax havens, mostly by very rich individuals. Since 2015, he has served as co-director of the World Wealth and Income Database, a database providing access to extensive data series on the world distribution of income and wealth.