Our Team

Jason Ward • Principal Analyst

Jason Ward has been a frequent commentator on corporate transparency and tax issues and has worked closely with the Tax Justice Network – Australia and the global tax justice movement. In 2022, Jason was included in the International Tax Review’s list of the 50 most influential people on tax policy. He is currently a Visiting Fellow at the Faculty of Business at the University of Greenwich, United Kingdom. Jason has analysed the accountability and tax practices of large health care and for-profit aged care (nursing home) operators - and other large government contractors - in multiple countries. Jason has helped mobilise over US$10 trillion of investor capital to support the Global Reporting Initiative’s (GRI) proposed tax transparency reporting standards and facilitating landmark shareholder resolutions at major multinationals to require public country by country reporting following the GRI Tax Standard. Jason has a MPhil in Development Studies at the Institute for Development Studies (IDS) at the University of Sussex in the UK. He has lived in Africa, Asia and the Middle East, campaigned to reform the World Bank and IMF, and has decades of research and campaign experience with global unions.

Toby Quantrill has a background as a development professional with an MSc in Development Planning and Management and over twenty years of experience in the development sector, working with a number of major NGOs and alongside the labour movement. He has worked on direct programme delivery, advocacy and campaigning as well as a broad range of policy areas including health, climate change, disability, trade and, most recently, tax. Toby has worked as tax policy officer with the global NGO Action Aid and with the UK development organization Christian Aid as the Global Lead on Economic Justice. Toby is on the Board of Tax Justice UK and helped to set up and lead the Steering group for the Independent Commission for Reform of International Corporate Taxation (ICRICT), a high level Commission that brings together prominent economists, academics and activists from across the globe.

Livi Gerbase • Researcher: Latin America and Caribbean

Livi Gerbase is a researcher for Latin America and the Caribbean at CICTAR. She holds a master's degree in international political economy from the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ). She has worked on the Public Policy Intelligence Nucleus of the Government of Mato Grosso do Sul in Brazil and was a political advisor at the Institute of Socioeconomic Studies (Inesc). She has authored a number of publications and coordinated projects in the areas of fiscal and tax justice, tax incentives, evaluation of public policies, strategic planning, energy transition, and monetary policy.

Edward Miller is a researcher based in Aotearoa New Zealand. He has spent more than a decade working in the labour movement, both for FIRST Union in Aotearoa and for the Building and Wood Workers’ International from the Asia-Pacific Regional Office in Kuala Lumpur. He holds a LLM from the University of Auckland and has been active in struggles for labour and human rights, trade justice, public ownership and a just transition.

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Bronwyn Lee has worked as an organiser and researcher with unions and progressive organisations since 2008. She has contributed to CICTAR's work in areas such as digital services taxes, extractive industries, and corporate transparency. She has a Masters in Political Economy from the University of Sydney and is writing her PhD at Binghamton University, NY, on the politics of bauxite (aluminium ore) nationalisation. 

Patrick Orr has worked with European and global trade union federations for the past ten years, with a focus on tax justice and strategic communications. He has been with CICTAR since 2021, where he works building relationships with unions around the world. He speaks Spanish, French, Portuguese and German and holds degrees from the Universities of Glasgow and Cambridge.