George R. Zodrow is the Cline Professor of Economics, and a Faculty Scholar, Center for Tax and Budget Policy, Baker Institute for Public Policy, at Rice University; he has also served as an International Research Fellow at the Centre on Business Taxation at Oxford University.

Zodrow’s research focuses on tax reform in the United States and in developing countries, state and local public economics, and large-scale computer models of the macroeconomic effects of tax reforms. He has published over a hundred articles on taxation and numerous books, including Advanced Introduction to Taxation (2025). He was an editor of the National Tax Journal from 2007-2016.

Zodrow has been a consultant to the U.S. Department of the Treasury, the Joint Committee on Taxation, as well as several multilateral institutions and private companies and organizations, and has been involved in tax reform projects in numerous countries. He received the 2009 Steven D. Gold Award for his contributions to state and local fiscal theory and policy, and a collection of his articles was published in 2020 as Taxation in Theory and Practice: Selected Essays of George R. Zodrow.

Contact at [email protected] or 713-348-4891.