Michael P. Devereux is Director of the Oxford University Centre for Business Taxation, Professor of Business Taxation, and Professorial Fellow at Oriel College.

He is Research Director of the European Tax Policy Forum, and Research Fellow of the Institute for Fiscal Studies, CESifo and the Centre for Economic Policy Research. He is the elected Vice-President of the International Institute for Public Finance, and is Editor-in-Chief of International Tax and Public Finance, Assistant Editor (Economics) of the British Tax Review and on the Editorial Board of the World Tax Journal. Professor Devereux is a member of the government multinational forum on tax, chaired by the Financial Secretary.

He gained his PhD in Economics at University College London. Prior to coming to Oxford, he was Professor and Chair of the Economics Departments at the Universities of Warwick and Keele. He has been closely involved in international tax policy issues in Europe and elsewhere, working with the OECD's Committee of Fiscal Affairs, the European Commission and the IMF.