Norman B. Richter

Biography

Norm Richter teaches undergraduate and graduate level tax courses in the Graduate Tax Program at the Boston University Law School and at Babson College. He has appeared on local news and NPR programs as a tax expert, and on tax panels at tax conferences, as well as served on boards and planning committees for numerousacademic and professional tax organizations. 

Before teaching, Norm served as the chief tax executive for three large US multinational corporations in different industries: biopharmaceutical (Baxalta),medical devices and pharmaceuticals (Baxter), and diversified industrial businesses (Textron).

Prior to industry, Norm worked in the three branches of the US government in various tax roles: In Washington, DC, he led the international tax counsel group in the Office of Tax Policy at the US Treasury Department, served as majority tax counsel for the US Senate Committee on Finance, and clerked for a judge on the US Tax Court.

Before joining the staff of the Senate Finance Committee, Norm was a tax attorney with the Steptoe & Johnson law firm in Washington, DC. He is a cum laude graduate of Dartmouth College and of the University of Pennsylvania Law School.