Kimberley Scharf is a Professor of Economics at Warwick University.

Her interests lie in the theoretical analysis of the behavioural responses of donors to tax incentives for giving as well as the political economy implications of individual and group giving behaviour.

She has written extensively on voluntarism and taxation, addressing both academics and practitioners in the UK and in Canada. She is president and co-founder of Public Economics UK (PEUK), an associate editor at the Journal of Public Economics, and on the editorial boards of Fiscal Studies and International Tax and Public Finance. She is also a research associate at Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR) and CESifo in Munich.