and Business Administration. In the period 1999-2004 he directed the research program 'Taxation, Aid, and Democracy'. This was the first comparative study of revenue systems in African countries that explored the evolution and performance of the local and central government tax systems. In 2003, it was ranked by the Research Council of Norway as one of its best performing research programs within development studies with respect to academic publications as well as policy relevance. Fjeldstad has published widely on tax reforms, tax compliance, revenue administration, fiscal corruption and decentralization. His research has been published in