Khadija Sharife is a journalist; visiting scholar at the Center for Civil Society (CCS) based in South Africa and contributor to the Tax Justice Network. She is the Southern Africa correspondent for The Africa Report magazine, Africa project fellow at the US-based World Policy Institute, assistant editor of the Harvard "World Poverty and Human Rights" journal, assistant Africa editor of "Capitalism, Nature, Socialism", and author of Tax Us If You Can (Africa), among co-authored works.  Her writing has appeared in African Business, Forbes, The Economist, Al Jazeera, Foreign Policy, BBC, The Thinker, London Review of Books, African Banker, among others.