Richard J. Joseph, Ph.D
Richard J. Joseph is the Provost of Hult International Business School. As Hult’s Chief Academic Officer, he oversees Hult’s degree programs in Boston, London, Dubai, San Francisco, and Shanghai. Before joining Hult, Provost Joseph served on the faculty and administration of the McCombs School of Business at The University of Texas at Austin, where he taught Mergers & Acquisitions, International Taxation, Tax Research Methodology, and Business Law.
Before embarking on his academic career, Provost Joseph worked as an investment banker at Lehman Brothers, a securities trader at Bear Stearns, an international banker at Citibank, and a mergers and acquisitions lawyer for the Bass Group. A graduate magna cum laude of Harvard College (B.A.), Oxford University (M.Litt.) and The University of Texas at Austin School of Law (J.D.), he is co-editor of the Oxford Handbook on Mergers and Acquisitions and co-author of Prentice Hall’s Federal Taxation Series. In addition, he has written numerous commentaries in the Financial Times, The Christian Science Monitor, Tax Notes, and Tax Notes International. His book, The Origins of the American Income Tax, explores the original intent, rationale, and effect of the early American income tax.