• Sir James Mirrlees (Chair): Professor of Political Economy at the University of Cambridge, and joint winner of the Nobel Prize for Economics in 1996
• Tim Besley: Professor of Economics and Political Science at the London School of Economics, IFS Research Fellow, and member of the Monetary Policy Committee of the Bank of England
• Richard Blundell CBE: Research Director of the IFS, David Ricardo Professor of Political Economy at University College London, and President of the Econometric Society
• Malcolm Gammie QC, CBE: Barrister at One Essex Court, Research Director of the IFS Tax Law Review Committee, and past President of the Chartered Institute of Taxation
• James Poterba, Head of the Economics Department at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and recent member of President Bush's bi-partisan Advisory Panel on Federal Tax Reform

Assisted by:
Stuart Adam (IFS)
Stephen Bond (IFS & Oxford)
Robert Chote (IFS)
Gareth Myles (Exeter & IFS)

This team is running the Review, editing the contributed chapters, and will be responsible for writing two review chapters for the final report: a discussion of the principles of a good tax system for an advanced open economy in the 21st century, and specific proposals for reform of the UK tax system.