Lyla Latif is a Kenyan qualified lawyer and legislative draftsperson. Her legal practice is focused around corporate (re)structuring, negotiating contracts, drafting of asset backed securities and investment agreements for Kenyan based entities and subsidiaries of multinational corporations. She litigates around legal challenges arising out of those practice areas and has previously also practised criminal law in Tanzania. Outside of practice, Lyla also provides consultancy work to international organisations and NGOs on domestic revenue mobilisation, the taxation of digital business models and the criminal aspect of illicit financial flows. She holds a faculty position with the University of Nairobi (on leave) and has also taught at Cardiff University in the UK (2018-2021). Lyla’s research is focused on the physical and digital aspects of domestic revenue mobilisation and the closing of revenue leakages. She considers the role of constitutional, African and Islamic fiscal systems approach to financing development. Her work takes a heterodox critique to mainstream colonial influenced fiscal regimes and their approach to development. She is currently working with the UN Office of the Special Adviser on Africa on developing proposals to combat corruption and money laundering in Africa.