Ehtisham Ahmad

Ehtisham Ahmad is an internationally recognised economist specialising in fiscal federalism, public finance and decentralisation. He has been affiliated with the London School of Economics since 2010, and previously with the Center for Development Research (ZEF) at the University of Bonn, Zhejiang and Sun Yat-Sen Universities, and the Chinese Academy of Fiscal Science. During his career at the International Monetary Fund (1990–2010) he was Senior Advisor to the Executive Board and Division Chief in the Fiscal Affairs Department; he also served as Special Advisor to the Minister of Finance of Saudi Arabia (1996–1998). He is the editor of the "Handbook of Fiscal Federalism" (Edward Elgar, 2006) and of numerous volumes on decentralisation, taxation and intergovernmental fiscal relations.