Eric Zolt

While on leave from UCLA, Eric served in the U.S. Department of Treasury from 1989 to 1992. He served first as Deputy Tax Legislative Counsel in the Office of Tax Policy, and then as the Founder and Director of Treasury’s Tax Advisory Program for Eastern Europe and the Former Soviet Union. Eric continues to serve as a consultant to the Treasury Department, US AID, the World Bank, and the International Monetary Fund. He has provided tax policy advice in over 30 countries. Eric currently serves as a member of the UN Tax Subcommittee on Wealth Taxes.

In 2002, Eric co-founded and served as the first Chair of the Executive Committee of the African Tax Institute, a training and research facility for tax policy and tax administration located at the University of Pretoria. ATI has provided training to over 2,000 government officials from 20 different African countries.

Eric has been a visiting professor at Yale Law School, Harvard Law School, NYU School of Law, Science Po Aix-en-Provence, University of Toronto, The Buchmann Faculty of Law, Tel Aviv University, and California Institute of Technology. He also served as the Director of Harvard Law School’s International Tax Program from June 2000 through June of 2003.