Thomas Lassourd

Founder & Principal, Hanura Consult LLC; Senior Associate, International Institute for Sustainable Development (IISD)

Thomas (Bukuru) Lassourd is an economist and tax policy advisor with two decades of experience designing fiscal regimes for the extractive industries in more than 20 countries. Through Hanura Consult, he advises governments, development finance institutions and investors on mining fiscal policy, mineral pricing, contract negotiations and the economic evaluation of mining investments. Until 2026 he was Lead for Tax & Extractives at the International Institute for Sustainable Development. In that role he led the IGF Global Mining Tax Initiative, advising governments in Africa, Latin America and Asia on mining fiscal policy, transfer pricing and tax audits, and training revenue officials. Before that, he spent nearly a decade with the Natural Resource Governance Institute where he led its work on extractive industries taxation and managed a team of regional economists. He holds degrees from the Paris School of Economics and HEC Paris.