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Miranda Stewart teaches, researches and advises on taxation and welfare law and policy in academia, government and the private sector. She engages in research, policy advice and teaching across a wide range of tax policy and law design projects and sectors including taxation of large and small business entities, not-for-profits and individuals; taxation of capital and assets; tax reform processes, budget institutions; gender equality, budgeting and the tax and transfer system; and resilience, legitimacy and effectiveness of tax systems to support effective democracies nationally and globally.

Miranda is a Professor at Melbourne Law School, University of Melbourne as well as a Fellow at the Tax and Transfer Policy Institute and the College of Asia Pacific at the ANU. She was formerly the inaugural Director of the Institute. Miranda previously taught at New York University School of Law, NY, USA, in the leading International Tax program in the US. She previously worked in private legal practice and in the Australian Tax Office on business tax policy and legislation. Miranda has also taught in the graduate tax law programs at Osgoode Hall Law School, York University, Canada and the University of Florida Levin College of Law.