Krishen Mehta

Global Financial Integrity

Bio

Krishen Mehta is a co-chair of the Advisory Board of Global Financial Integrity.

Mehta worked for PricewaterhouseCoopers for almost 30 years and retired in 2008. He has served as an advisor to Global Financial Integrity since 2009. He is also advisor to Aspen Institute's Business and Society Program, and is a member of the Asia Advisory Council of Human Rights Watch.

While at PricewaterhouseCoopers, he was responsible for PwC's US Tax practice in Japan, Singapore, Malaysia, Taiwan, Korea, China, and Indonesia, and worked with over 140 American companies conducting business in Asia.

He has also contributed articles on development and social equity issues to the Japan Times and the International Herald Tribune.

Featured Work

JUN 15, 2016 Podcast

Panama Papers in Perspective: Tracing Illicit Capital Flows

In this Institute of Current World Affairs speech on May 20, with the sensational revelations from the "Panama Papers" still emerging, Krishen Mehta, a longtime friend ...

MAY 23, 2011 Podcast

Follow the Money: Krishen Mehta on Capital Flight

How does capital flight work and how big a problem is it? Krishen Mehta of Global Financial Integrity (GFI) explains that in total, developing countries ...