Mihir A. Desai


Mihir A. Desai is an American economist currently the Mizuho Financial Group Professor of Finance at Harvard Business School and Professor at Harvard Law School. He graduated from Brown University with a bachelor's degree of history and economics in 1989, earned an MBA from Harvard Business School in 1993 and a PhD in Political Economy from Harvard University. Desai teaches at Harvard Business School in the Leading with Finance program.
Desai has testified to Joint Committees in Washington on international corporate taxation, as is quoted in the main financial papers on US corporate tax.
His professional experiences include working at CS First Boston, McKinsey & Company, and advising a number of firms and governmental organizations. He is also on the Advisory Board of the International Tax Policy Forum and the Centre for Business Taxation at Oxford University.