Research Assistant, London School of Economics and Political Science
Andrew Lonsdale is a Research Assistant at the International Inequalities Institute at the LSE, working with Dr Arun Advani and Dr Andy Summers. His work focuses on the revenue and distributional impacts of potential reforms to capital gains tax.
Andrew holds masters degrees in Economics from the Paris School of Economics and in Public Policy and Administration from the LSE, and completed his undergraduate studies at McMaster University. He previously worked as a tax intern at the OECD's Centre for Tax Policy and Administration and as a research intern at the Center for Research in Economics and Statistics.
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