Gabriel Zucman

Gabriel Zucman is a Summer Research Professor in Economics and the Summer School Director of the James M. and Cathleen D. Stone Center on Wealth and Income Inequality at the University of California, Berkeley. He received his PhD in 2013 from the Paris School of Economics and taught at the London School of Economics before joining the Berkeley faculty in 2015. His research focuses on the accumulation, distribution, and taxation of global wealth and analyzes the macro-distributional implications of globalization. He received the John Bates Clark Medal of the American Economic Association in 2023.

Gabriel Zucman is a professor specializing in inequality, public economics, international macro, and economic history. His research focuses on wealth inequality, tax evasion, and the distribution of wealth across nations and time. Zucman's work analyzes historical and contemporary data to understand the dynamics of wealth accumulation, the role of tax havens, and the impact of global inequality. His publications include studies on the evolution of wealth-income ratios, the hidden wealth of nations, and the effects of progressive wealth taxation. Zucman's research contributes to understanding how economic policies shape inequality and how global institutions can address tax avoidance and wealth distribution.