Aarti Joshi is a Tax Director at a leading UK-listed FinTech company based in the City of London that provides finance to small and medium-sized enterprises.
She has held senior tax roles at large-cap Technology and Media companies and at start-ups and her expertise is on the taxation of fast-growing digital businesses. She has advised on large transactions including on the acquisition and disposal of companies by multinationals, and on the successful flotation of a large Tech company on the NASDAQ stock exchange. Aarti holds a degree in Philosophy, Politics and Economics from Oxford University and is a Chartered Accountant.
She stood for Parliament in 2024 for the Conservative Party, and in the London council elections in 2022. Aarti has held numerous voluntary roles, including as Board Treasurer for charity DeafKidz International, and is passionate about increasing the participation of women at all levels of politics, and about the safeguarding of children. Outside of work and politics, she enjoys travel and live music, and regular boxing classes.
Through the Thatcher Fellowship, Aarti hopes to examine and debate what the role and size of the state should be with the other Fellows and the Centre for Policy Studies team.
Using her background in fast-growing technology businesses, she would like to explore what tax and other measures would be most effective at ensuring that businesses start-up and remain in the UK, and consider the role that the availability of finance plays in the growth of small businesses.
She believes that now is a great time for the centre-right to debate policy ideas around the economy, and to consider what stimulates economic growth from a free-market perspective.
