Chris Evans is a Professor in the School of Taxation and Business Law, part of the Australian School of Business at The University of New South Wales (UNSW), and is also the former Head of the Australian School of Taxation (Atax) at UNSW. He specialises in capital gains taxation, comparative taxation, tax law and administration, tax policy and reform. His PhD from UNSW was a comparative study of the operating costs of taxing capital gains. He also holds a Master’s degree in European Political Integration from Leicester University and a Bachelor’s Honours degree in Economics from London University, as well as educational qualifications. In addition to his appointment as an Extraordinary Professor at the University of Pretoria, Chris is an International Research Fellow at Oxford University, an International Fellow of the Exeter University –Institute for Fiscal Studies Tax Administration Research Centre, a Senior Research Fellow at Monash University and has been a Visiting Professor at the University of Canterbury, New Zealand and at the Vienna University of Business and Economics in Austria. He was formerly Chair of the Australasian Branch of the UK’s Chartered Institute of Taxation and is currently the inaugural Chair of the newly-formed Asia-Pacific Branch of that same organisation. In 2004 he was awarded the President’s Award, CPA Australia for his “significant contribution to the profession particularly in relation to policy development and research and through the Tax Centre of Excellence”, and the UNSW Staff Development Award for “an outstanding contribution in staff development”. In 2007he received the Australasian Tax Teachers’ Association Medal for his “outstanding contribution to the teaching of taxation law and policy”. He was one of a limited number of tax academics invited to participate with the Prime Minister and Treasurer at the National Tax Forum in Canberra in October 2011.

His research focus is taxation & Law.