Funding What Funds Everything: Why Tax Justice Matters
Approximately $492B is lost every year to illicit financial flows and tax avoidance
$250B could be raised globally with a 2% tax on individuals with a wealth over $100m
A conversation on tax justice and system change
About the session
What if the success of the causes we care most about, climate, democracy, inequality, education, and health, ultimately depends on how well our systems are funded?
This interactive session explores tax justice as a foundational lever across these issues. While often treated as a niche topic, tax policy shapes the resources available for public systems, the distribution of wealth, and the long-term sustainability of social and environmental progress.
Rather than a traditional panel, this will be a participatory conversation designed to help funders and practitioners connect tax justice to their own work. Together, participants will challenge assumptions, explore how tax systems intersect with different sectors, and consider where greater alignment could unlock more systemic impact.
The aim is to broaden the conversation, build connections across issue areas, and surface opportunities for collaboration that enable more scalable and sustainable change.
Who this is for
This session is for funders, practitioners, advocates, and policymakers working across sectors who are interested in addressing root causes and strengthening the systems that underpin lasting impact.
What you will get out of it
A clearer understanding of tax justice as a cross-cutting systems issue
Insight into how tax policy connects to your area of work
Opportunities to engage with others working across sectors
New ways of thinking about how to unlock sustainable funding for systemic change
Speakers
Gary Stevenson - Former trader turned inequality economist, author, and founder of the viral YouTube channel 'Gary’s Economics'
Along with...
Faiza Shaheen - Executive Director, Tax Justice UK
Giorgiana Notarbartolo - Wealth Inheritor and systems change advocate
Lamia Oualalou - General Manager, International Tax Observatory
Lindsay Storie - Head of Community, Patriotic Millionaires
Michael Jarvis - Executive Director, Trust, Accountability and Inclusion Collaborative
This session invites participants to step back from individual issues and consider the underlying systems that fund them, and what it would take to strengthen those systems for the long term.