Max Gallien is a political scientist specialising in the political economy of development, particularly the politics of taxation and of informal and illegal economies.
Max is an IDS Research Fellow in the Governance Cluster and with the International Centre for Taxation and Development (ICTD) where he leads the research programme on informality and taxation with Vanessa van den Boogaard, alongside the ICTD’s teaching and learning programme.
His book “Smugglers and States – Negotiating the Maghreb at its Margins” (Columbia 2024) recently won the Theodore J. Lowi First Book Award, awarded jointly by the American Political Science Association (APSA) and International Political Science Association (IPSA). He is also the co-editor of the “Routledge Handbook of Smuggling“. Max holds a PhD from the London School of Economics, and an MPhil from the University of Oxford.
Languages: German (native), English (fluent), French (advanced), and Arabic (intermediate)
