Nicholas Shaxson is the author of Treasure Islands: Tax Havens and the Men who Stole the World and Poisoned Wells: The Dirty Politics of African Oil. He is a journalist, campaigner, and world expert on both tax havens and financial centers, as well as the Resource Curse. His writing has appeared in Vanity Fair, Financial Times, the Economist, the Economist Intelligence Unit, and many others. He lives in Germany.