Dennis de Widt is a Lecturer in Accounting & Finance at Cardiff Business School, which he joined in August 2017. After graduating from Leiden University, the Netherlands, he worked as a Junior Researcher at the Centre for Public Sector Reform at Leiden University. He moved to the UK in 2011 to conduct his PhD at Queen Mary University of London, conducting a European comparative study of the impact of intergovernmental financial structures on local government debt. Subsequently, he worked as a Postdoctoral Researcher at the University of Exeter Business School where his EU funded research focused on tax compliance initiatives for large businesses. Dennis continues to be involved as an Associate Research Fellow with the ESRC/HMRC/HMT funded Tax Administration Research Centre (TARC) at the University of Exeter Business School. Dennis’ research in the areas of public sector finances and accounting is characterised by a strong interdisciplinary, and often international comparative approach.