Since 2011, Dr. John Hasseldine has been a Professor of Accounting and Taxation in the Peter T. Paul College of Business and Economics at the University of New Hampshire. Previously he was a Chair and Head of the Accounting and Finance Department at the University of Nottingham Business School. John, a Kiwi, qualified as a chartered accountant in New Zealand and is a Fellow of the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants (FCCA) based in London.
John has served on three government committees in the U.K. and was a contributor to the Mirrlees Review of the U.K. tax system conducted by the Institute of Fiscal Studies. He has been an external expert at the International Monetary Fund, a visiting professor at the University of New South Wales, Sydney, and a keynote speaker at several international tax conferences. He travels widely, speaking at national and global conferences, including one on VAT organized by the OECD, World Bank and IMF, and a conference on dealing with the national tax gap held at the U.S. Library of Congress in Washington DC. He is a co-author of Comparative Taxation: Why Tax Systems Differ, Fiscal Publications, 2017.
John received his Ph.D in Accounting in 1997 from the Kelley School of Business at Indiana University-Bloomington, and his Master of Commerce in Accounting and Bachelor of Commerce from the University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand.