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Rita de la Feria
University of Leeds
Professor of Law
Description
Rita de la Feria is Professor of Tax Law at the University of Leeds, a Visiting Professor of Law at Oxford University, and an International Research Fellow at the Oxford University Centre for Business Taxation. Since 2023, she is a member of the Advisory Panel of the UK’s Office for Budget Responsibility (OBR).
Professor de la Feria received her law degree from the University of Lisbon, and did her PhD at the University of Dublin, Trinity College, after a brief career in practice. In addition to her full-time academic positions, she has been a visiting scholar at New York University (USA), the University of New South Wales (Australia), McGill University (Canada), the University of California, Irvine (USA), and the International Monetary Fund; as well as a Visiting Professor at the University of Lisbon (Portugal), and at Leiden University (Netherlands).
Her research focus primarily on tax law and policy, and she has published widely in that area, including five books, and over 70 journal articles and book chapters. Her latest edited book, entitled Taxation and Inequalities (IBFD), was published in June 2025, and her new co-authored book entitled Tax Avoidance: A General Theory of Anti-Avoidance Mechanisms, is contracted for publication with Oxford University Press, in late 2026. She is actively engaged in global tax policy discussions, has provided tax policy and legal drafting advice to several Governments worldwide, and has prepared expert legal advice for tax cases appearing before several European national courts, particularly on cases concerning tax avoidance, VAT and excise taxes. She features regularly in global media outlets.
Professor de la Feria was listed two years running (2015-2016) in the Global Tax 50, as one of the most influential tax people in the World; and was co-recipient of the 2016 Outstanding Women in Tax Award, awarded by the US-based Tax Analysts. In 2019, she was recognised in the 100 Years of Women in Tax by the International Fiscal Association as one of the most influential women in tax in the last 100 years.
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