Vanessa Houlder has worked as a journalist on the Financial Times since 1988 writing about companies, the property industry, technology, management, environment, economics and taxation. For the past decade she has written extensively about tax policy, in the UK and internationally. Awards include the LexisNexis tax writer of the year and prizes for investigative journalism from the Overseas Press Club of America and the Society of American Business Editors and Writers. This year, she was named as one of the Global Tax 50, a list of influential people in taxation chosen by the editorial team of the International Tax Review.
