Nicholas Shaxson is a journalist and writer on the staff of Tax Justice Network. He is author of the book 'Poisoned Wells' about the oil industry in Africa, published in 2007, 'Treasure Islands: Tax havens and the Men who Stole the World', published in January 2011, and 'The Finance Curse: How global finance is making us all poorer', published in October 2018. He lives in Berlin.