“Professor Waris’ clear headed insights are a boom we non- experts can no longer say “it’s all too complicated” or “i don’t know where to start”
Will Fitzgibbon, International consortium of Investigative Jouranlists(ICIJ)
Attiya Waris regularly moderates, participates in and leads discussions as well as gives speeches and talks. She also trains and teaches across multiple stakeholder groups including University students, private sector, media and influencers, diplomats, international institutions, Governments civil society, Trade unions and communities in USA, Canada, Argentina, Honduras, UK, Austria, Malaysia, Egypt, Tanzania, Angola, South Africa on diverse elements surrounding the creation of an international fiscal architecture(debt, tax, credit rating, dispute resolution, illicit financial flows, aid) through a human lens
EATGN – AFRICAN DEBT AND TAXES
Prof. Dr. Attiya Waris is based at the Law Faculty, University of Nairobi, Kenya where she is the founding chair of the committee on fiscal studies. She is the second full female law professor in the country since independence and the first from a religious ethnic and racial minority. She is also the only known Professor of Fiscal Law and Policy on the African continent. Her work challenges the thinking around why states collect resources and how these resources are collected inorder to solve the grand challenge of financing development and reducing poverty
“You think of water when the well is empty”
Ethipoian Proverb
Attiya Waris’ work linking finance to well being is having a global impact over the last three years her work has influenced the creation of a committee on surcharges, development on thinking around the international fiscal architecture at the united nations, included language on human rights in tax treaty negotiations. She acts as an advisor to a wide range of governments and international institutions including the WHO, The Madrid Club, UNESCWA and OHCHR.
“Attiya adopts a people centric approach to discourse on matters of taxation, reminding us all that the state is financed by the sweat of the brow of citizenry and as such governments should ensure that this limited resource is always prudently utilized”
JosepH Kinyua, Former Head of the Public service of Kenya