Ciarán O’Flynn
Visiting Research FellowCiarán O’Flynn is a political economist and a Swiss National Science Foundation Visiting Fellow at the Department of Politics and International Studies at Warwick, and previously a British Academy Visiting Fellow at the department. He holds a PhD in Political Economy and International Affairs from the University of St. Gallen in Switzerland. He has lectured in International Political Economy and in Comparative Politics at the University of Lucerne and the University of St.Gallen. He has been a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Institute of Political Science at the University of St. Gallen, and at the Department of European & International Studies at King’s College London.
His research project at Warwick is titled The Golden Cage: How the State-Professional Service Nexus Helps Create, Sustain, and Reinvent Tax Avoidance Strategies. The project is organised into three work-packages, Create, Sustain, and Reinvent. Create examines the state-professional services nexus necessary to propagate BEPS-tools, and the structural power dynamics between an Off-Shore Financial Centre (OFC) state and Transnational Corporations. Sustain investigates how the control over meaning and ideas by states and professional services firms enables BEPS-tools to be sustained in the face of legal, political, and popular challenge. Reinvent studies the extent to which these BEPS-tools influence foreign direct investment stocks in OFC states.