Global Tax 50 2015: Winnie Byanyima

Winnie Byanyima is a new entry this year

Winnie Byanyima has made this year's Global Tax 50 list for her influential role in highlighting the impact of taxation (and tax policymakers) on human rights and inequality.

The human rights advocate and globally-recognised expert on women's rights has made an active contribution to the debate over global tax policy issues, particularly during the World Bank and IMF annual meeting in Lima, Peru, which focused on inequality and the endorsement of the OECD's BEPS package.

"Corporate tax dodgers deprive Latin America of half its potential tax revenue," says Byanyima. "This is immoral and unsustainable. Finance ministers must crack down on them if they are serious about tackling poverty and inequality."

"Extreme inequality isn't just a moral wrong. We know that it hampers economic growth and it threatens the private sector's bottom line," she says.

The Global Tax 50 2015
View the full list and introduction
The top 10 • Ranked in order of influence
1. Margrethe Vestager	2. Pascal Saint-Amans
3. Wang Jun	4. Arun Jaitley
5. Marissa Mayer	6. Will Morris
7. Ian Read	8. Pierre Moscovici
9. Donato Raponi	10. Global Alliance for Tax Justice
The remaining 40 • In alphabetic order
Brigitte Alepin	Andrus Ansip
Tamara Ashford	Mohammed Amine Baina
Piet Battiau	Elise Bean
Monica Bhatia	David Bradbury
Winnie Byanyima	Mauricio Cardenas
Allison Christians	Rita de la Feria
Marlies de Ruiter	Judith Freedman
Meg Hillier	Vanessa Houlder
Kim Jacinto-Henares	Eva Joly
Chris Jordan	Jean-Claude Juncker
Alain Lamassoure	Juliane Kokott
Armando Lara Yaffar	Liao Tizhong
Paige Marvel	Angela Merkel
Zach Mider	Richard Murphy
George Osborne	Achim Pross
Akhilesh Ranjan	Alan Robertson
Paul Ryan	Tove Maria Ryding
Magdalena Sepulveda Carmona	Lee Sheppard
Parthasarathi Shome	Robert Stack
Mike Williams	Ya-wen Yang

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