Matthew Collin

Matthew Collin is a nonresident fellow in the Global Economy and Development program at Brookings and a senior economist at the EU Tax Observatory. He is an Anglo-American economist whose research focuses on understanding the costs and benefits of policies aimed at reducing illicit financial flows, including money laundering and cross-border tax evasion.

Collin was previously a Rubenstein Fellow at Brookings. Before that, he worked in the World Bank as an economist in the Global Tax Team and as a Young Professional in the Human Development Chief Economist’s office. He has also previously held positions as a research fellow at the Center for Global Development and as an ODI Fellow in the Ministry of Finance of Malawi.

He holds both a doctoral degree  in economics and a master’s in economics for development from the University of Oxford and a bachelor’s in mathematics and economics from Clemson University.