John Christensen

John Christensen is the former economic adviser to the British Crown Dependency of Jersey, a pre-eminent British tax haven. Having originally trained as a forensic fraud investigator, he is now the di

7 ways the ‘Finance Curse’ harms the UK – how can we lift it?

The City of London is a huge drag on the UK’s real economy. But we can – and must – lift the 'Finance Curse'.

By John Christensen and Andrew Baker

/ 1 Nov 2018

Costing the country: Britain's finance curse

A report published today from Andrew Baker of the Sheffield Political Economy Research Institute, Gerald Epstein, University of Massachusetts, and Juan Montecino, Columbia University, NY, suggests that the cost to

By John Christensen

/ 5 Oct 2018

Ten years in the campaign for tax justice - we have a long way to go

For more than a decade John Christensen has been at the forefront of the challenge to offshore finance, tax avoidance and evasion and the criminal immunity safeguarded by secrecy jurisdictions. Where's it heading?

By John Christensen

/ 29 Oct 2015

The Finance Curse - introduction

Paying billions in tax revenues, the City would surely be an asset to any country. Wouldn't it? A new book, The Finance Curse, argues that far from being a "golden goose", having an oversized financial sector is seriously damaging to an economy.

By John Christensen

/ 27 Sep 2013