James S. Henry is an American economist, lawyer, and investigative journalist. He is an Edward R. Murrow Fellow at Tufts University's Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy and an INSPIRE Fellow at its Institute for Global Leadership.[1] Henry has written extensively on the problems of financial secrecy, capital flight, tax evasion, tax justice and developmental finance.[2] Henry is, along with Nicholas Shaxson, a founding member and senior adviser of the Tax Justice Network.[3]
Henry was born in Minneapolis, Minnesota, and has a bachelor's degree from Harvard College, a JD from Harvard Law School, and a master's degree from Harvard Graduate School of Arts and Sciences.[4]
In August 2019, Henry tweeted that Joseph Kennedy III "should focus on his family’s considerable mental health issues".[5][6][7] The tweet was retweeted by former Ed Markey aide Paul Tencher who, following an outcry, apologized for doing so, saying it had been an accidental retweet of a "despicable and abhorrent" post and that Henry should be "banned from Twitter".[5][7][8]
Before James wrote Blood Bankers and founded technology and IT consulting firm, Sag Harbour, James was chief economist at McKinsey & Co.[1]
Henry and his family live in New York City and Sag Harbor, New York.[4]