Jack Blum is a Washington, D.C. lawyer who specializes in issues of money laundering, financial crime, and international tax evasion. He spent fourteen years as a Senate investigator with the Senate Antitrust Subcommittee and the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. He played a central role in the Lockheed Aircraft bribery investigation of the 1970s, which led to the passage of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, and in the investigation of the Bank of Credit and Commerce International. He is currently chair of Tax Justice Network USA, and the Violence Policy Center. He obtained a J.D. from Columbia Law School and a B.A. in Psychology from Bard College.

Chuck Collins is a senior scholar at the Institute for Policy Studies (IPS). He is author of the new book, 99 to 1: How Wealth Inequality is Wrecking the World and What We Can Do About It.
He directs IPS’s Program on Inequality and the Common Good –and co-edits inequality.org, the nation’s premiere web portal for data, analysis and commentary on extreme wealth inequality. He cofounded Wealth for the Common Good and Patriotic Millionaires, two networks of business leaders, high net worth individuals and partners working for shared prosperity and fair taxation.
He is author of several books including Wealth and Our Commonwealth: Why America Should Tax Accumulated Fortunes, co-authored with Bill Gates Sr., and Moral Measure of the Economy, with Mary Wright.

Mr. Henry is a leading management consultant, with a special emphasis on competitive technology strategies. He has served as VP Strategy, Lotus Development Corporation; Firm Economist, McKinsey & Company; and Manager, Business Development/ Chairman’s Office, GE. He has managed projects on a wide variety of strategy issues for many prominent multinational companies. He is a founding partner of International Venture Partners, a direct equity investment firm based in San Paulo, Brazil.

Mr. Henry has also written extensively about business and technology issues. His articles have appeared in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The New Republic, The Washington Post, U.S. News and World Report, Manhattan Inc., Harpers, The Washington Monthly, Fortune Magazine, Business Week, Newsweek, Time Magazine, The Tax Lawyer, International Development Report, Jornal do Brasil, The Manilla Chronicle, La Nacion, and El Financiero. He is also the author of several books and anthologies. His work has taken him to many emerging markets, including Russia, China, the Philippines, South Africa, Namibia, the Sudan, Brazil, Venezuela, Chile, Zimbabwe and Mexico. He is an honors graduate of Harvard College (B.A., Social Studies, Phi Beta Kappa), The Harvard Law School (J.D.), The Harvard Graduate School of Arts and Sciences (M.S. Economics), and a member of the New York Bar since 1978.

Edward D. Kleinbard was a Professor of Law at the University of Southern California’s Gould School of Law, and a Fellow at The Century Foundation. Professor Kleinbard joined USC Law in 2009. Before joining USC Law, Professor Kleinbard served as Chief of Staff of the U.S. Congress’s nonpartisan Joint Committee on Taxation.

Professor Kleinbard’s work focused on the taxation of capital income, international tax issues, and the political economy of taxation. His papers include Stateless Income (Florida Tax Review), The Lessons of Stateless Income (Tax Law Review), The Better Base Case (Tax Notes), Herman Cain’s 9-9-9 Plan (Tax Notes), and Tax Expenditure Framework Legislation (National Tax Journal). Professor Kleinbard has testified before the Congress on tax policy matters, and has written opinion pieces for The New York Times, the Huffington Post, CNN.com, and other media outlets.

Prior to his appointment to the Staff of the Joint Committee on Taxation, Kleinbard was for over 20 years a partner in the New York office of Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton LLP. Professor Kleinbard received his J.D. from Yale Law School, and his M.A. in History and B.A. in Medieval and Renaissance Studies from Brown University.

Lee Sheppard is a contributing editor of Tax Notes, a Washington-based weekly tax journal. Trained as a lawyer, she is essentially a legal commentator on tax questions, and is well known for her trenchant observations. She covers all areas of the tax law, including international taxation, corporate taxation, partnership taxation, bankruptcy tax questions, pensions and tax accounting questions. She is frequently asked to speak on tax subjects. Tax Analysts, the publisher of Tax Notes and related publications, is a nonprofit publisher that provides the latest and most in-depth tax information worldwide.

Rebecca Wilkins was Senior Counsel for Federal Tax Policy for Citizens for Tax Justice and the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy. She joined CTJ/ITEP in January 2009 where she focused on all aspects of federal tax policy including corporate, individual, trusts and estates, with a special emphasis on the U.S. taxation of international transactions and offshore tax haven abuse. She was a co-author of CTJ/ITEP’s 2011 Corporate Taxpayers and Corporate Tax Dodgers. Prior to joining CTJ/ITEP, she spent more than 20 years as a practicing CPA specializing in tax, particularly for high-net-worth clients, at the international accounting firm of KPMG and at a local Denver firm. Rebecca has a J.D. and a Masters in Taxation from the University of Denver and was an instructor in the University’s Graduate Tax Program.

Jeffrey A. Winters is a professor of politics and Director of the Equality Development and Globalization Studies (EDGS) program at Northwestern University. His new book, Oligarchy (Cambridge University Press, 2011), won the American Political Science Association’s 2012 award for the best book in comparative politics. He is researching and writing a new book entitled The Wealth Defense Industry in America.