Craig West

Prof. Dr. Craig West is Managing Editor of IBFD's World Tax Journal and of the IBFD Doctoral Series. He is an Associate Professor at the University of Cape Town, and his areas of expertise are international and South African income tax, in which he has published a number of articles and chapters.

He has regularly presented 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. He holds a PhD from the University of Cape Town (2009) as well as a Master of Commerce in Accounting. He is a Chartered Accountant (SA), Master Tax Practitioner (SA) and Chartered Accountant ANZ. Dr. West is a member of various research groups undertaking tax research on a variety of topics.

He has been a visiting researcher at the Institute for Austrian and International Tax Law (WU, Vienna) (2015) and the Fiscal Institute for Taxation (UvT, Tilburg) (2013). He is a member and Secretary-General of the South African IFA branch.