Craig West

Craig West is Adjunct Professor in the Commerce Faculty at the University of Cape Town, South Africa. He is a Chartered Accountant of Australia and New Zealand and a Master Tax Practitioner in South Africa. He holds a PhD from the University of Cape Town (2009) as well as a Master of Commerce in Accounting. He is Managing Editor of IBFD's World Tax Journal and of the IBFD Doctoral Series. He was a postdoctoral researcher at IBFD (in 2016) and a visiting researcher at the Institute for Austrian and International Tax Law (WU, Vienna) (in 2015) and the Fiscal Institute for Taxation (UvT, Tilburg) (in 2013). He has delivered guest lectures for Tilburg University (Netherlands); Strathmore University (Kenya) and the University of Amsterdam (Netherlands). He is an associate member of EATLP and a member of both IFA and IFA South Africa. Craig has published a number of articles and chapters and regularly presents at conferences and seminars on both international and South African taxation and has been appointed as a national reporter for South Africa on several occasions.

His publications focus on an international readership.

Teaching

• International Tax;
• research methods in tax;
• supervision (Masters and PhD)

Research Interests

• International tax;
• Tax treaties;
• South African income tax

Companies

• Adjunct Professor University of Cape Town (2021)
• Associate Member EATLP European Association of Tax Law Professors (2017)
• Managing Editor: World Tax Journal and Doctoral Series IBFD (2017)
• Associate Professor UCT Tax Unit for Fiscal Research (2015 — 2021)
• Associate Professor University of Cape Town (2011 — 2021)
• Secretary General International Fiscal Association South Africa (2014 — 2020)
• Executive International Fiscal Association South Africa (2014 — 2020)
• Postdoctoral Research Fellow IBFD (2016 — 2017)
• Head of Department of Finance and Tax University of Cape Town (2013 — 2016)

Education

• PhD University of Cape Town (2007 — 2009)