David Graham Russell, AM, RFD, KC (born 2 December 1950) is an Australian barrister who specialises in international tax law.

[citation needed] He is admitted to practise in Australia, England and Wales (where he is a member of Lincoln's Inn), the Courts of the Dubai International Financial Centre, New York (as a legal consultant), New Zealand and Papua New Guinea.

[citation needed] Russell was President of the Taxation Institute of Australia[4] from 1993 to 1995,[5] and of the Asia Oceania Tax Consultants' Association from 1996 to 2000.

[citation needed] Russell has lectured and written extensively on taxation related topics in Australia and overseas, and served as a member of the Advisory Editorial Board of Australian Tax Practice.

[17] In 2012, he was made a Member of the Order of Australia for, amongst other things, "service … to taxation law and legal education".

[32][33] In 2010 he was awarded the Order of the Rising Sun with Gold Rays and Neck Ribbon for services to Australia–Japan relations.