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Graham Glenday, Professor of the Practice Emeritus and Co-Director of the International Taxation Program, DCID  

Office Location: Rubenstein Hall - Rm 278, Duke University, 302 Towerview Road, Durham, NC 27708
Office Phone: +1 919 613 9236
Duke Box: 90237
Email Address: glenday@duke.edu

Areas of Expertise

  • International
    • Finance
    • International Development
    • Taxation
  • Public Finance
    • International Finance
    • Taxation, developing countries

Education:
Ph.D., Harvard University, 1983
M.P.P., Harvard University, 1976
M.A., University of Oxford (United Kingdom), 1974
B.S.CH.E., University of Cape Town (South Africa), 1971

Research Categories: International public finance, taxation and public budget and investment policy in developing countries

Research Description: Research: Public finance; economic development

Recent Publications   (More Publications)

  1. Glenday, G; Mih Le, T; Mahdi, S; Pijuan, A. Assessing Public Investment Management Functions and Institutional Arrangements for State-Owned Enterprises: A Diagnostic Framework.  EQUITABLE GROWTH, FINANCE & INSTITUTIONS INSIGHT (2021).
  2. Glenday, G. "Climate-Informed Public Investment Management Diagnostic Framework; Climate Change Adaptation and Mitigation." Climate-Informed Public Investment Management Diagnostic Framework; Climate Change Adaptation and Mitigation (July, 2020).
  3. Glenday, G. "Diagnostic Assessment of Public Investment Management for State Owned Enterprises and Non-Profit Government Entities." Diagnostic Assessment of Public Investment Management for State Owned Enterprises and Non-Profit Government Entities (January, 2020).
  4. Glenday, G; Bharali, I; Wang, Z. "Enhancing Domestic Revenues: Constraints and Opportunities: A cross-country comparative study of tax capacity, effort and gaps." Enhancing Domestic Revenues: Constraints and Opportunities: A cross-country comparative study of tax capacity, effort and gaps Center for Policy Impact in Global Health, Duke University and Duke Center for International Development. (April, 2019).
  5. Glenday, G. "Towards a framework for managing tax incentives in the context of Ethiopia." Towards a framework for managing tax incentives in the context of Ethiopia (June, 2016).

Curriculum Vitae

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Graham Glenday is Professor of the Practice Emeritus of Public Policy at DCID.  Before retiring in August 2018, he was co-director of the International Taxation Program, PARM, and BUDGET programs. He is currently working on a range of issues relating to public investment management in the context of climate change and state owned enterprises.  He came to Duke in July 2001 from Harvard University where he was Director of the Public Finance Group in the Kennedy School of Government and earlier in the Harvard Institute for International Development. He has over 35 years of international professional experience in public finance, acting as an advisor in tax policy and administration reforms, public investment management and other fiscal matters to over 30 countries in Africa, Asia, Turkey and elsewhere including co-ordination of the successful Tax Modernization Program in Kenya. Earlier he served as Assistant Director of Tax Policy Analysis in the Department of Finance in the Government of Canada. Glenday has also published research and taught graduate courses and executive workshops in taxation, public budgeting and project appraisal matters from 1985 onward. Glenday was a Rhodes Scholar at Oxford University and has a Ph.D. in Public Policy from Harvard University.

Graham Glenday