About Professor Rita de la Feria

Rita de la Feria is Professor of Tax Law at the University of Leeds, and an International Research Fellow at the Oxford University Centre for Business Taxation. Since 2023, she is a member of the Advisory Panel of the UK’s Office for Budget Responsibility (OBR).

Professor de la Feria received her law degree from the University of Lisbon, and did her PhD at the University of Dublin, Trinity College, after a brief career in practice. In addition to her full-time academic positions, she has been a visiting scholar at New York University (USA), the University of New South Wales (Australia), McGill University (Canada), and the University of California, Irvine (USA); as well as a Visiting Professor at the University of Lisbon (Portugal) and at Leiden University (Netherlands). She teaches at the MSc in Taxation at Oxford University since 2017.

Her research focus primarily on tax law and policy, and she has published widely in that area, including five books, and over 60 journal articles and book chapters. She is actively engaged in global tax policy discussions, and has provided tax policy and legal drafting advice to several Governments worldwide. Professor de la Feria has testified before five elected Parliaments, including on various occasions before the European Parliament, the UK Houses of Parliament, and the Brazilian National Congress. Her research is regularly cited by courts across Europe, including the EU Court of Justice and various European Supreme Courts, and she features regularly in global media outlets, such as the BBC, and the Financial Times. She has written op-eds for The Guardian, and worked with BBC Panorama and The Guardian as an expert on the “Paradise Papers” leaks.

Professor de la Feria was listed two years running (2015-2016) in the Global Tax 50, as one of the most influential tax people in the World; and was co-recipient of the 2016 Outstanding Women in Tax Award, awarded the US-based Tax Analysts. In 2019, she was recognised in the 100 Years of Women in Tax by the International Fiscal Association as one of the most influential women in tax in the last 100 years.