Dr. William Vlcek
The Wealth & Poverty them presents a research talk by Ohio University alum Dr. William Vlcek ’81 on “Pulling Back the Curtain to Offshore Finance – The Panama and Paradise Papers in Context” on Tuesday, March 27, from 5 to 6 p.m. in Alden 319.
Vlcek earned an A.B. in Political Science from the Honors Tutorial College at Ohio University, 1981, followed by a Ph.D. from the London School of Economics and Political Science in 2006.
He is a senior lecturer (associate professor) in Global Political Economy at the School of International Relations at the University of St Andrews in Scotland. He is the author of Offshore Finance and Global Governance: Disciplining the Tax Nomad (Palgrave, 2017), and his research focuses on many aspects of global financial governance. His publications include articles on offshore finance, money laundering and terrorist finance, while additional research considers the role and application of casinos in economic development, and the intersections between finance and security in the global political economy.
Abstract: Questions on wealth and poverty exist on many levels, and the structures of taxation are an integral part of the problem as much as they are part of the solution. The transnational element to these questions is the focus for this talk, informed by the public revelations of the formerly private, confidential practices of wealthy individuals and multinational corporations to avoid taxation and retain their wealth. Data provided by whistleblowers to the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists are the basis for the Panama Papers (2016) and Paradise Papers (2017). These investigative reports will be situated in the structures and operations of offshore finance as an environment facilitating inequality.
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