Judith Knott Email & Phone Number

I was a civil servant (tax professional) for nearly 27 years, working mainly on corporate tax and tax policy and managing increasingly large numbers of professional staff (with eventual responsibility for over 2,000 staff in 20 offices across the UK). Roles included Director of Corporation Tax, International and Anti-Avoidance in HMRC and Head of Corporate Tax in HM Treasury. Most recently, I was HMRC Director of Large Business, with responsibility for £200bn of tax receipts, before leaving in 2016 to pursue other interests. I remain an active member of the tax community as an independent commentator (for example, through my blog) and as Chair of the Addington Society of leading tax experts.I served as a Governor at University of Hertfordshire for 6 years from 2013. I was a member of the Audit & Risk Committee, and latterly chaired the Employment, Remuneration, Governance & Nominations Committee and the Vice-Chancellor Remuneration Committee. I have recently joined the Council of the Institute for Fiscal Studies. Prior to my civil service career I was an academic in Linguistics at SOAS, University of London. My PhD thesis (1985) was on verb morphology in North German and Dutch dialects. I write on topics including tax, government, Germany, music, language, and knitting/mathematics, through my blog (judithknott.com) and elsewhere. I have recently started learning Estonian and blogged about the experience for Deep Baltic. I am an amateur pianist, having learnt as a child and resumed in 2012 after a gap of 35 years.

Listed skills include Tax Policy, Corporate Tax, International Tax, Public Policy, and 11 others.