Vice-President Taxation, Future Electronics

Adams, Steven

Attendance to TaxCOOP2015: Competing when your competitors don’t pay taxes. Insiders’views and solutions-2015

Biography:
Steven Adams is CGA with a Masters degree in Taxation. With over 25 years of experience in corporate taxation, he is recognized for his in-depth knowledge within the field and for his keen creativity, resulting in innovative solutions to a multitude of problems, both in Canada and abroad. He successfully created and developed Taxation departments in Canada and internationally.

2001 Nobel Prize Laureate in Economics and University Professor at Stanford University and Georgetown University

Akerlof, George

Attendance to TaxCOOP2016: To broaden the overall tax base: to tax for the promotion of public goods, the tax on tobacco

Chair of the Global Alliance for Tax Justice and Senior Economic Policy Advisor of Tax Justice Network Africa

Alemayehu, Dereje

Attendance to TaxCOOP2016: Taxing multinationals in a globalized world

Biography:
Dereje Alemayehu is Chair of the Global Alliance for Tax Justice and Senior Economic Policy Advisor of Tax Justice Network Africa. He also works as a Senior Economic Justice Advisor to Christian Aid and serves as country director in Burkina Faso, Tanzania and Kenya. Mr. Alemayehu is the author of two books, several articles and book chapters as well as regular blog contributions on development policy , the role of the state in development, governance, accountability, tax and development, illicit financial flows. Prior to his work in the development sector, Mr. Alemayehu was a Lecturer at the Free University in Berlin from 1987-1998 where he holds a MA in Development Studies and PhD in Economics.

Tax Expert, Professor, UQO FCPA, FCA, Author, Global Tax 50 and TaxCOOP instigator

Alepin, Brigitte

Attendance to TaxCOOP: Keynote Interview-2018; KeyNote Speech-2016; Debate-2016; Déjeuner du Québec Portrait d’une fiscalité québécoise adaptée au Québec du 21e siècle-2015; Get inspired and moving with some help from opinion leaders who have made a true difference-2015;

Biography:
Brigitte Alepin is a Canadian businesswoman, a Harvard trained tax specialist and tax policy advisor and a professor in taxation at the Ecole des Sciences de la Gestion of the Université du Québec à Montréal. She lead several major reports and projects for governments, Fortune 500 corporations, and NGOs, in various fields including environmental taxation, international taxation, oil and gas taxation, and health care. She has both public and private-sector experience that allows her to offer a rare multidimensional perspective of tax policies and public finances. She acts as a special advisor to politicians and political parties and she also acts as an expert witness on various committees of the House of Commons and the Canadian Senate. Brigitte Alepin is known for her books Ces riches qui ne paient pas d’impôt [eng. The rich who do not pay taxes] and La crise fiscale qui vient [eng. The coming fiscal crisis]. This book inspired the award-winning film The Price we pay, directed by Harold Crooks and co-written by Harold Crooks and Brigitte Alepin

Professor, School of Economics and Business, Norwegian University of Life and Science

Alstadsaeter, Annette

Attendance to TaxCOOP2017: The impact of tax competition on MNEs, SMEs and individuals

Biography:
Annette Alstadsæter is Professor at School of Economics and Business, Norwegian University of Life Science. Her research is on tax evasion, tax avoidance, and inequality, in particular when considering the interaction between firms and their owners. She is member of the Norwegian Special Board of Appeal for Petroleum Taxation, board member of the Swedish Expert Group on Public Economics, and board member of the International Institute of Public Finance.

Senior Adviser, The Arnold Report, Canadian Tax Foundation

Arnold, Brian J.

Attendance to TaxCOOP2015: It’s legal, but is it moral? Tax morality and its limits

Biography:
Brian J. Arnold is Senior Adviser, Canadian Tax Foundation, Toronto. He is a graduate of Harvard Law School (J.D., 1969) and taught tax law at a Canadian law school for 28 years. He has been a consultant to various governments, the OECD, and the United Nations. He is the co-editor of the Bulletin for International Taxation and the author of several books and articles on tax issues, including (with Hugh J. Ault) Comparative Income Taxation: A Structural Analysis, 3rd edition, published by Kluwer in 2010; and (with Colin Campbell, Michael Hiltz, Richard Marcovitz, Shawn Porter, and James R. Wilson) Timing and Income Taxation: The Principles of Income Measurement for Tax Purposes, 2nd edition, published by the Canadian Tax Foundation in 2015. He is the author of The Arnold Report, a regular feature on the Canadian Tax Foundation website.

Former Staff Director and Chief Counsel of the U.S Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations, One of Washington's most powerful women (2011, 2013)

Bean, Elise J

Attendance to TaxCOOP2015 and TaxCOOP2016: Tax competition amid asymmetrical information-2015; How tax transparency could lead to better global tax rules-2016

Biography:
Elise Bean was first hired by Senator Carl Levin (D-MI) in 1985, to serve as an attorney on the U.S. Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee. In 2003, Senator Levin appointed her staff director and chief counsel of the Committee’s Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations, which he chaired.
During her tenure with Senator Levin, Ms. Bean handled a variety of complex investigations, hearings, and legislation, including matters involving money laundering, offshore tax abuse, foreign corruption, unfair credit card practices, corporate misconduct involving derivatives or structured finance, health care fraud, and shell companies with hidden owners.
Investigations headed by Ms. Bean included inquiries into offshore tax avoidance by Apple, Microsoft, and Caterpillar; undeclared UBS, LGT, and Credit Suisse accounts for wealthy U.S. clients; and tax shelter sales by professional firms, including KPMG. In 2014, Senator Levin retired from the Senate, and so did Ms. Bean. She is now co-director of the new Levin Center at Wayne Law School in Detroit.
Ms. Bean graduated Phi Beta Kappa from Wesleyan University in 1978, and received a law degree from the University of Michigan Law School in 1982. She served as a law clerk to the former Chief Judge of the U.S. Claims Court, Alex Kozinski, who later served as the Chief Judge of the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals. She also worked for two years as a trial attorney with the U.S. Department of Justice Civil Frauds Section.
In 2013 and 2011, the Washingtonian magazine named her one of Washington’s 100 most powerful women. In 2010, Ms. Bean was selected by the National Law Journal as one of Washington’s most influential women lawyers..In 2015, she was included in the Global Tax 50, a list compiled by the International Tax Review of the year’s top 50 individuals and organizations influencing tax policy and practice.

Head of the International Tax Division, Federal Academy of Finance, Federal Ministry of Finance in Berlin

Becker, Katharina

Attendance to TaxCOOP2015: Competition and taxation: A look at the landscape-2015

Biography:
Katharina Becker is head of the International Tax Division of the Federal Academy of Finance in the Federal Ministry of Finance in Berlin. She has a Diploma in Economics and has passed the German Tax Advisor examination. Ms Becker started her career in the tax audit department of KPMG, Düsseldorf. In the German Tax Administration she has had different functions so far, such as the head of the Harmful Tax Competition Division as well as of the Mutual Agreement Procedures- and Advance Pricing Agreements- Division in the German Federal Central Tax Office and as deputy head of the Transfer Pricing- and of the International Tax Policy- Division in the Federal Ministry of Finance.

In 2008 Ms Becker worked for the Task Force on the Common Consolidated Tax Base (CCCTB) at the General Directorate for Taxes and Customs of the EU- Commission in Brussels. Between 2000 and 2003 she was seconded to the Centre for Tax Policy and Administration at the OECD to support the OECD’s project on Harmful Tax Competition.

Executive Director, Presidential Climate Action Project (PCAP)

Becker, William S.

Attendance to TaxCOOP2016: To broaden the overall tax base: to tax for the promotion of public goods, the tax on carbon emissions

Biography:
William Becker is a leading authority on energy policy and climate change. He is the executive director of the Presidential Climate Action Project, which develops recommendations for U.S. presidents on the use of executive power to lead the U.S. transition to a low-carbon economy.
Mr. Becker is a senior adviser to several organizations working on U.S. compliance with its commitments under the Paris Accord. His diverse background includes 15 years as a senior official in the U.S. Department of Energy. He is a prolific writer on clean energy and climate action as a guest blogger at the Huffington Post and the author of numerous books and articles on these topics.

Lawyer, Partner and Leader of the Tax Group in Canada Norton Rose Fulbright LLP

Belley, Dominic

Attendance to TaxCOOP2017: The Debate

Biography:
BELLEY, DOMINIC Lawyer, Partner and Leader of the Tax Group in Canada Norton Rose Fulbright LLP
Dominic Belley is a tax litigator. He has appeared as lead counsel in civil, criminal or constitutional matters in more than 100 cases, for the account of clients in 7 out of 10 Canadian provinces. He has argued 4 cases before the Supreme Court of Canada between 2012 et 2017
His areas of practice include income tax, goods and services tax, fuel tax, collection measures, access to tax information, judicial review and rectification.
He teaches tax law at the University of Sherbrooke and the Quebec Bar.
He has published and given speeches in Canada, the U.S., the U.K. and France.
He has law degrees from McGill University.
He lives in Montréal.

Expert in artificial intelligence and pioneer in deep learning; Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Operational Research, Université de Montréal; ACM A.M 2019 recipient

Bengio, Yoshua

Yoshua Bengio is recognized as one of the world’s leading experts in artificial intelligence and a pioneer in deep learning notably for its neural networks rebirth.

Professor at the Université de Montréal since 1993, he is also the founder and scientific director of Mila – Quebec Artificial Intelligence Institute, the world’s largest university-based research group in deep learning. In addition, he holds a Canada CIFAR AI Chair, co-directs the Learning in Machines and Brains program of the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research (CIFAR) as a Senior Fellow and acts as scientific director of IVADO.

In 2018, Yoshua Bengio ranked as the computer scientist with the most new citations worldwide, thanks to his many high-impact contributions. Then, he earned the prestigious Killam Prize. At the same period, he received the ACM A.M. Turing Award, “the Nobel Prize of Computing”, jointly with Geoffrey Hinton and Yann LeCun for conceptual and engineering breakthroughs that have made deep neural networks a critical component of computing. He is Fellow of both the Royal Society of London and Canada. Concerned about the social impact of AI, Yoshua Bengio actively contributed to the Montreal Declaration for the Responsible Development of Artificial Intelligence.

Governor of Kansas

Brownback, Sam

Attendance to TaxCOOP2015: From global to local competition: when tax competition hits close to home

Biography:
Governor Sam Brownback was born in Garnett, Kansas to Robert and Nancy Brownback in 1956. He quickly learned the value of hard work, responsibility, and family at a young age while working with his sister and brothers on their family farm near Parker, Kansas. He began his career in leadership when he was elected state president of the Future Farmers of America, and then the national vice-president of the FFA.
After graduating from Prairie View High School in 1974, Sam attended Kansas State University. He received his Bachelor of Science in Agricultural Economics in 1978, and went on to the University of Kansas Law School.
Four years later he became the youngest Secretary of the Kansas Department of Agriculture in state history.
In 1994, Sam was elected by Kansans to Congress from the Second District. Two years later, he won a seat in the U.S Senate, and served there until 2010.
In 2010 Sam returned to his roots in Kansas where he was elected governor. In his second term, Sam and his administration aim to grow the Kansas economy by lowering the tax burden for small businesses and encouraging U.S. companies to explore corporate opportunities in Kansas.
Governor Brownback is working to make Kansas the best state in America to raise a family and grow a business.

Director, Public Service and Performance, Governance Global Practice, World Bank

Brumby, Jim

Attendance to TaxCOOP2016: Tax competition: an unleveled playing field for developing countries?

Biography:
Jim Brumby began as Director on March 1, 2015. He previously served as the Practice Manager for the EAP region based in Jakarta, Indonesia and as the Sector Manager and Lead Economist for the Indonesia country program. Throughout his professional life he has been engaged in public management reform at the state, national, and international levels, joining the Bank in 2007 where he had a leading role in public financial management reform in the Poverty Reduction and Economic Management group. In 2009 he was appointed Sector Manager, Public Sector & Governance, with line responsibility for the Vice Presidency’s staff working on a number of critical areas in governance including anticorruption, legal and judicial reform, public financial management, and civil service reform. His experience also spans a number of managerial positions in IMF, OECD, and Victoria State Government in Australia.

Associate Professor, H.Heward, Stikeman Chair in Tax Law, Mc Gill University, Global Tax 50

Christians, Allison

Attendance to TaxCOOP2016: Competition and taxation:Debate-2016; A look at the landscape-2015

Biographiy:
Allison Christians is the H. Heward Stikeman Chair in the Law of Taxation at the McGill University Faculty of Law. She formerly taught in the United States, and is frequently invited to present lectures and participate in conferences across Canada, the United States, and Europe. A recognized expert in U.S., Canadian, and international taxation law, Professor Christians is known especially for her work on the relationship between taxation and economic development and on the role of government and non-government institutions and actors in the creation of tax policy norms.
She has written numerous scholarly articles, essays, and book chapters, as well as editorials, columns, and articles in professional journals, addressing a broad array of topics involving national and international tax law and policy. Recent research focuses on the role of activists in reforming disclosure rules for multinational companies, evolving international norms of cooperation and competition, and the relationship between taxation and human rights.
Professor Christians also engages on topics of tax law and policy via social media with her Tax, Society, and Culture blog and on twitter: @taxpolblog.In 2015, she was included in the Global Tax 50, a list compiled by the International Tax Review of the year’s top 50 individuals and organizations influencing tax policy and practice.

Thormund Miller and Walter Mintz Professor of Economics at Reed College

Clausing, Kimberly

Kimberly Clausing is presently the Thormund Miller and Walter Mintz Professor of Economics at Reed College. In 2021, she will become a Professor of Tax Law and Policy at UCLA School of Law. Her research studies the taxation of multinational firms. She has published numerous articles in this area, and she is the author of Open: The Progressive Case for Free Trade, Immigration, and Global Capital (Harvard University Press, 2019). Professor Clausing has received two Fulbright Research awards (to Belgium and Cyprus), and her research has been supported by external grants from the National Science Foundation, the Smith Richardson Foundation, the International Centre for Tax and Development, the U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis, and the Washington Center for Equitable Growth. She has worked on economic policy research with the International Monetary Fund, the Hamilton Project, the Brookings Institution, the Tax Policy Center, and the Center for American Progress. She has testified before both the House Ways and Means Committee and the Senate Committee on Finance. Professor Clausing received her B.A. from Carleton College in 1991 and her Ph.D. from Harvard University in 1996.

ITT/Terry Sanford Professor of Public Policy Studies, Duke University and author "Paying the Tab"

Cook, Philip

Attendance to TaxCOOP2016:To broaden the overall tax base: to tax for the promotion of public goods, the tax on tobacco

Chief of Staff and Parliamentary assistant to Corinne Lepage

Damerval, François

Attendance to TaxCOOP2016: To broaden the overall tax base: to tax for the promotion of public goods, the tax on carbon emissions

Biography:
François Damerval holds a Master 2 in Business Management specializing in Corporate Social Responsibility.
Chief of Staff since 2008 and Parliamentary Assistant to Corinne Lepage at the European Parliament 2009-2014, and worked on nuclear issues in the ENVI (Environment, Public Health, and Food Safety) and ITRE (Industry, Research, and Energy).

Professor, Chair in Tax Law, University of Leeds

De La Feria, Rita

Attendance to TaxCOOP2016:Taxing multinationals in a globalized world-2016

Biography:
Rita de la Feria is Professor and Chair of Tax Law at the University of Leeds, and an International Research Fellow at the Oxford University Centre for Business Taxation (2012 – ), and visiting professor at the university of Lisbon (2010 – ). She was Tax Policy and Legal Adviser to the Portuguese Government (2011-2012), and a tax advisor to the Government of East Timor, with responsibility for drafting a new VAT law for the country (2015-2016).

Senior Research Fellow, Mercantus Center, George Mason University

De Rugy, Veronique

Attendance to TaxCOOP2016: The debate

Biography:
Veronique de Rugy is a senior research fellow at the Mercatus Center at George Mason University. Her primary research interests include the U.S. economy, the federal budget, homeland security, taxation, tax competition and financial privacy. Her popular weekly charts, published by the Mercatus Center, address economic issues ranging from lessons on creating sustainable economic growth to the implications of government tax and fiscal policies. She has testified numerous times in front of Congress on the effects of fiscal stimulus, debt, deficits and regulation on the economy.
Her work has been featured in New York Times, The Washington Post, the Wall Street Journal, CNN International, Stossel, 20/20, C’SPAN’s Washington Journal, and Fox News Channel.

Commissionner, Department of Economic Policies and International Taxation, UEMOA

Diagne, Mamadou Makhtar

Attendance to TaxCOOP2017: Tax cooperation: experiences and challenges in Africa

Biography:
Mamadou Makhtar Diagne has been Commissioner for Economic Policies and Internal Taxation of the Commission of the West African Economic and Monetary Union since May 2017. Previously, he was Director of Private Sector Support at the Ministry of Economy and Finance of Senegal. He has served on the Board of Directors and the Audit Committee of the Banque de l’Habitat of Senegal and on the Technical Committee of the Accelerated Growth Strategy in addition to coordinating the Economic Growth Program of USAID.

Deputy Secretary General, CREDAF

Diallo, Ismaïla

Attendance to TaxCOOP2017: Tax cooperation: experiences and challenges in Africa

Biography:
Ismaïla Diallo is a Tax and Properties Inspector working for the public administration of Senegal since 2005. He has led the Research Bureau of the General Tax Administration during five years, from January 2009 to March 2014, before being nominated as Technical Adviser at the Ministry of Economy, Finance and Planning where he was dealing with important topics like Domestic Resource Mobilization issues (Tax Policy and Administration, Illicit financial flows, etc.).
Ismaila has been moved to the Senegalese Embassy in Paris where he is appointed First Counsellor and put at the disposal of the Centre de Rencontres et d’Etudes des Dirigeants des Administrations fiscales (CREDAF) first as Senior Technical Adviser (from November 2016 to May 2017) and then as Deputy General Secretary (since May 2017). Note that he has worked for the CREDAF in the past, especially as one of the experts who elaborated the Guiding Book on Tax Expenditures.

Associate Professor at the Université de Montréal

Dietsch, Peter

Attendance to TaxCOOP2015: Competition and taxation: a look at the landscape-2015

Biography:
Peter Dietsch is Associate Professor at the Université de Montréal. His research interests lie at the intersection of political philosophy and economics, with a particular focus on questions of income distribution as well as on the normative dimensions of economic policies. He is the author of Catching Capital – The Ethics of Tax Competition (2015, Oxford University Press).

Director of Legislation and Litigation Studies, Ministry of Economy and Finance, Senegal

Diop, El Hadji Ibrahima

Attendance to TaxCOOP2016: Taxing multinationals in a globalized world-2016

Biography:
Director of Legislation and Litigation Studies, Ministry of Economy and Finance, Senegal. His previous positions include Inspector and Auditor, Senior Tax Inspection Team, Department of Tax Inspection and Investigation, and Chief of Inspection, Tax Department. Mr. Diop has a Master’s degree in Economics, Université de Dakar; postgraduate studies in taxation, École Nationale d’Administration et de Magistrature, Senegal; and postgraduate studies in Accounting, École Nationale Supérieure Universitaire de Technologie, Senegal. Mr. Diop was a member of the Committee.

Professor, Université Paul Valéry

Djouldem, Mohamed

Attendance to TaxCOOP2017: Let’s start planning for the future

Biographie:
Mohamed DJOULDEM is a lecturer in political science at the Université Paul Valéry in Montpellier and a researcher at UMR 5281. He co-authored (avec Yves Saillard and Philipe Warin), Lutter contre le non-recours: un révélateur du renouvellement des politque publique in ODENORE, L’envers de la fraude.Le scandale du non-recours. Paris, La Découverte, 2012, (with Christian de Visscher and Geneviève Tellier), Les réformes des finances publiques. Les enjeux politiques et gestionnaires. Brussels, Bruylant, 2014 and La contestation de la fiscalité des entreprises.Analyse d’une mobilisation contre la contribution foncière des entreprises. Management & Public Management, 2016/1 (volume 4 / n ° 3), p.37-74. He is also the author of several chapters in collective works, notably, The Evolution of Parliamentary scrutiny in France. In LM Imbeau & F. Stapenhurst (Eds): Parliamentary control of public finance in Francophone Countries, Ottawa: Canadian Audit and Accountability Foundation, 2017. He teaches the geopolitics of international finance, international political relations and public policies and their protestors. His current research focuses on the internationalization of public finances, poverty reduction policies and environmental policies.

Finance Minister Cabo Verde (2006-2016)

Duarte, Cristina

Attendance to TaxCOOP2016: Tax competition, tax coordination and tax cooperation in a globalized world

Biography:
An MBA graduate in international finance and emerging financial markets obtained in the United States of America, Cristina Duarte is a polyglot who master five languages: French, English, Portuguese, Italian, and Caboverdiano. Furthermore, she can showcase an equally diversified professional experience. She started her career in the Cape Verdean public administration as Director-General of studies and planning in the Ministry of Rural Development, before becoming later on an international consultant for the FAO, the UNDP and the World Bank. In 2006, in her new capacity as Minister of Finance and Planning, she was able to closely imbue herself with the functioning and the challenges of the ADB in her quality as Governor of the institution, which allowed her also to monitor the activities of the institution.

To a large extent, it was under her impulse that Cape Verde, a country whom many skeptically regarded as not viable at the time of its independence, in 1975, upgraded from the status of one of the least developed countries (LDCs) to reach that of a middle-income country, achieving such a remarkable feat despite being a country devoid of natural resources and confronted with a harsh climatic environment. In addition to her work in the public sector, she also has had a solid experience in the private sector as prior to becoming Minister in her native country, she was one of the leading Africans executives at the prestigious private bank, The Citibank, for which she served in its Kenyan and Angolan branches up to the position of Vice President in charge of Corporate and Investment Banking.

Professor, Administration Faculty, Sherbrooke University

Dugas, Marie-Thérèse

Attendance to TaxCOOP2017: Forum for the future-2017

Biography:
Professor, Administration Faculty, Sherbrooke University
Marie-Thérèse is CPA, CA, and professor at the University of Sherbrooke at the Administration Faculty most particularly in the Tax Department in International Taxation.
She is a polyvalent financial and tax specialist with global expertise in international taxation and transfers pricing.
Marie-Thérèse gained her diversified experience in Canada, USA and Germany respectively in international taxation, transfer pricing, tax advisory, and teaching.

Professor emeritus, Université de Paris and Panthéon Sorbonne, Director of La Revue française de finances publiques, Secretary General to FONDAFIP, Expert for short-term assingments for the European Union and FMI

Eclassan, Marie-Christine

Attendance to TaxCOOP2018: The débate

Biography:
Marie-Christine Esclassan is a Knight in the French Legion of Honour and has published several books:
Manuel de finances publiques, Paris, Lextenso Éditions, 17th edition, 2018, in collaboration with M.Bouvier;
Manuel de droit fiscal, Paris, Édit. Universitaire 2000;
L’administration fiscale, PUF, 1988; numerous articles.
She has participated in numerous international colloquiums and has directed numerous doctoral dissertations.

Assistant Professor, College of Law, Hamad Bin Khalifa University(HBKU)

Ezenagu, Alexander

Dr Alexander Ezenagu is currently an Assistant Professor in the College of Law at Hamad Bin Khalifa University (HBKU), Qatar. As a trade and international tax law expert, he specializes in international tax law, domestic taxes, tax avoidance and commercial aspects of illicit financial flows, trade and investment advisory. He obtained his Ph.D. in international tax law from McGill University, Canada, and holds a Master of Law degree (LL.M) from the University of Cambridge, United Kingdom.
As a researcher, Alexander focuses on tax law and policy issues, with emphasis on the relationship between taxation and economic development and on the role of government and non-government institutions and actors in the creation of tax policy norms.

Senior Policy Expert in International Tax and Environmental Taxation, Green Fiscal Policy Network

Falcao, Tatiana

Tatiana Falcão is a senior policy expert in international tax and environmental taxation. She is a frequent contributor to the work of the United Nations, most recently acting as the manager of the Green Fiscal Policy Network at the United Nations Environment Program. She has previously worked in the secretariat of the United Nations Committee of Experts on International Cooperation
in Tax Matters.
She is a member of the United Nations’ Subcommittee on environmental Taxation, and a member of the BEPS Monitoring Group (BMG). As independent expert to the BMG, she has made numerous public appearances before the OECD during the BEPS Project, and most recently, at the debates concerning the tax challenges of the digitalization of the economy, to portray developing country approaches. Tatiana’s academic work, published in numerous books, articles and scientific papers, focuses primarily on international environmental taxation and the development of policies that aim to curb carbon emissions on a cross-border basis. Tatiana has a monthly column on emerging economy issues in Tax Notes International and is a regular commentator in international tax topics. Her most recent book “A Proposition for a Multilateral Carbon Tax Treaty” was published by the IBFD in 2019.
In 2019 Tatiana was named by the International Fiscal Association’s Women in Tax Committee one of the top 40 women-lawyers who have shaped international taxation over the last 100 years.
Tatiana is a graduate of the Vienna University of Economics and Business (AU, Ph.D), University of Cambridge (UK, LL.M), and New York University (USA, LL.M).

Associate Professor of Law, Georgetown University

Faulhaber, Lilian

Attendance to TaxCOOP2016: How to tax wealth more efficiently? Other tax instruments

Biography:
FAULHABER, LILIAN Associate Professor of Law, Georgetown University
Lilian V. Faulhaber is an Associate Professor at Georgetown University Law Center. Before joining the Georgetown faculty in 2015, she was an Advisor to the Base Erosion and Profit Shifting (BEPS) Project at the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development. Prior to working at the OECD, she was an Associate Professor at Boston University School of Law, where she won the Michael W. Melton Award for Teaching Excellence. Professor Faulhaber was an associate at Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton LLP in New York and clerked on the U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts. She is a graduate of Harvard College, Cambridge University, and Harvard Law School, where she was editor-in-chief of the Harvard International Law Journal. Professor Faulhaber teaches courses on federal income taxation, international business transactions, and taxation in the European Union, and she has published articles on international taxation, tax avoidance, charitable giving, and European Union law.

Reporter, Journalist, l'OBS

Fay, Sophie

Attendance to TaxCOOP2018: Rising star cocktail

Deputy Secretary of Economy and Finance, Uruguay

Ferreri, Pablo

Biography:
Pablo Ferreri is Vice Minister of Economy and Finance in Uruguay since March 2015 and was the General Director of the Revenue and General Tax Directorate (DGI) from 2010 to 2014. A public accountant, Ferreri graduated from the School of Economics and Administration of the University of the Republic, Uruguay, and holds a Master’s degree in Tax Law from the University of Montevideo. He served as president of the Inter-American Center of Tax Administrations (CIAT) (2010-2011). Ferreri currently teaches courses at the School of Economics and Administration of the University of the Republic and the University of Montevideo.

Senior Director for Policy and Programme Coordination, Secretariat Senior Staff, UNFCCC

Frick, Martin

Biography:
Martin Frick oversees as Senior Director UNFCCC’s work supporting the implementation of the Paris Agreement and climate action.
Martin Frick has worked in the German diplomatic service since 1996. In 2007, during the German EU presidency, he negotiated on behalf of the European Union key elements of the UN Human Rights Council, including the Universal Periodic Review. Between 2007-2010 he was Deputy CEO/Director of the Global Humanitarian Forum, a Geneva based foundation set up by former UN-Secretary General Kofi Annan.
Martin Frick was the German Representative to the UN Convention to Combat Desertification, UNCCD. He was also E3G’s Programme Leader for Climate Diplomacy from November 2010 to June 2012.

Chairman, Council Economic Advisor, Executive Office of the President of the United-States

Furman, Jason

Attendance to TaxCOOP2016: To broaden the overall tax base: to tax for the promotion of public goods, the tax on tobacco

Professor and CFFP chairholder, Sherbrooke University

Godbout, Luc

Attendance to TaxCOOP2015: Déjeuner du Québec Portrait d’une fiscalité québécoise adaptée au Québec du 21e siècle-2015
Biography:
GODBOUT, LUC Professor and Director of the Taxation Department, Sherbrooke University
Luc Godbout is Director of the Taxation Department at the University of Sherbrooke and principal researcher in public finance of the Research Chair in Taxation and Public Finance. In addition to his interest in comparative taxation, Mr. Godbout has devoted his recent research to tax structure, the impact of the aging population on public finances and public pension plan funding. He co-directs the publication of the book Le Québec Économique at Presses de l’Université Laval and has penned economic news articles in the Canadian Tax Journal, Canadian Public Policy, Revue de droit fiscal, Revue de planification fiscale et financière, Revue française de finances publiques and Tax Notes International.

Editor, International Tax Review

Haines, Anjana

Attendance to TaxCOOP2017: What about great entrepreneurs? What do they think about taxes?-2017

Biography:
HAINES, ANJANA Editor, International Tax Review
Anjana Haines is the Editor of International Tax Review. Based in London, ITR is the leading service for tax professionals, offering insight and analysis in international tax matters, as well as reporting on the biggest developments worldwide.
ITR’s portfolio includes a website, monthly magazine, social media, and a host of supplements and guides including the well-respected World Tax guide.
Anjana leads the command on these products.

Entrepreneur, Venture capitalist, Civic Activist, Philanthropist, Author

Hanauer, Nick

Attendance to TaxCOOP2017: What about great entrepreneurs? What do they think about taxes?

Biography:
Nick Hanauer is one of the most successful entrepreneurs, investors and managers in the Northwest. Hanauer is a co-founder and partner in Seattle-based venture capital firm, Second Avenue Partners. In 2015, he also founded Civic Ventures, a small group of political troublemakers devoted to ideas, policies, and actions that catalyze significant social change. Nick is also actively involved in a broad variety of civic and philanthropic activities. He co-founded the League of Education Voters; a non-partisan statewide political organization focused on promoting public education. Nick published the national bestsellers in politics “The True Patriot” and “The Gardens of Democracy” with co-author Eric Liu.

Mr. Navid Hanif, Director, Financing for Sustainable Development Office, UN DESA

Hanif Navid

Mr. Navid HANIF joined the United Nations Department for Economic and Social Affairs (UNDESA) in 2001. From 2001-2003 he was Senior Policy Adviser in the Division for Sustainable Development and member of the team for the World Summit on Sustainable Development held in Johannesburg in 2002. He later joined the office of the Under-Secretary General for UNDESA and focused on departmental initiatives in various policy areas. He was appointed as the Chief of Policy Coordination Branch in the office for Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) support in 2004. In 2005, he was sent on a special assignment as Principal Officer in the Office of the UN SecretaryGeneral and member of the team for the 2005 World Summit. In January, 2010, he was appointed as Head of the newly established DESA Strategic Planning Unit. In June 2012, he was appointed Director of the Office for ECOSOC Support and Coordination. In 2018, he was appointed as Director for Financing for Sustainable Development Office. Prior to joining the UN, he held various assignments in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Pakistan, including staff officer to the Foreign Secretary. He was posted to the Permanent Mission to the United Nations in New York in 1995. Mr. Hanif holds Masters in International Political Economy from Columbia University, New York and Masters in English Literature from Government College, Lahore.

Chair, CPA Canada Tax Policy Committee, Vice President, Taxation, CPA Canada

Hayos, Gabe

Attendance to TaxCOOP2017 and TaxCOOP2015: Let’s start planning for the future-2017; The OECD’s BEPS project: an exclusive update for TaxCOOP’s audience-2015

Biography:
Gabe Hayos was elected as a Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Ontario in 2009. He is a past Governor of the Canadian Tax Foundation and a Director on its executive committee. Has been recognized as one of Canada’s leading tax advisors by International Tax Review. Member of the Chartered Professional Accountants of Canada/Canadian Bar Association Joint Committee of Taxation. Gabe is a frequent speaker at tax conferences including the Canadian Tax Foundation, a number of the various provincial accounting institutes and the Chartered Professional Accountants of Canada. He is the author of many articles on domestic and international tax matters.
Gabe has thirty-six years of tax experience in a broad range of areas, with a primary focus on international tax and mergers and acquisitions.

Fellow, London School of Economics and Political Science

Hearson, Martin

Attendance to TaxCOOP2017: The impact of tax competition on MNEs, SMEs and Individuals-2017

Biography:
A fellow in the International Relations department of the London School of Economics and Political Science, Dr Martin Hearson teaches international political economy and the politics of money in the world economy. His research focuses on negotiations between states over the taxation of multinational companies, in particular the relationship between developed and developing countries. He uses field interviews and archival documentation to challenge the prevailing policy narratives about the origins and purposes of international agreements. Before moving to academia in 2012, he worked for civil society organisations, most recently ActionAid. He continues to collaborate with non-governmental and intergovernmental organisations in his research, and uses the findings to advocate for change.

Chair of the Public Account Committee of the United Kingdon, Member of Parliament for Barking, United Kingdom

Hodge, Margaret

Attendance to TaxCOOP2015: Get inspired and moving with some help from opinion leaders who have made a true difference

Biography:
The Rt. Hon Margaret Hodge MBE has been a Member of Parliament for Barking since 1994. She is also the first elected and first female Chair of the Public Accounts Committee.
She carried out the following roles in the Labour Government between 1998 and 2010:
She was Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Employment and Equal Opportunities, Department for Education and Employment (1998 – 2001); Minister of State for Lifelong Learning, Further and Higher Education, Department for Education and Skills (2001 – 2003); Minister of State for Children, Young People and Families, Department for Education and Skills (2003 – 2005); Minister of State for Employment and Welfare Reform in the Department for Work and Pensions (2005 – 2006); Minister of State for Industry and the Regions in the Department for Trade and Industry (2006 – 2007); and Minister for Culture, the Creative Industries, and Tourism in the Department for Culture, Media and Sport (2007 – 2010).
In the 2010 General Election Margaret fought off the challenge from Nick Griffin and the British National Party in her constituency, doubling her majority to 16,555.
Margaret Hodge entered politics in 1973 as a councilor for the London Borough of Islington where she was Chair of the Housing Committee from 1975 to 1979 and Deputy Leader from 1981 to 1982, before becoming a Leader from 1982 to 1992. Prior to her appointment to the DfE, she was Joint Chairman of the House of Commons Education and Employment Select Committee.
Margaret was educated at Bromley High School and Oxford High School before obtaining a BSc at the London School of Economics.

Director of Policy, Advocacy and Campaigns at Action Aid

Holder, Alison

Attendance to TaxCOOP2016 and TaxCOOP2015: The debate-2016; It’s legal, but is it moral? Tax morality and its limits-2015.

Biography:
Alison Holder is Director of Policy, Advocacy, and Programmes at Action Aid UK, where she leads the organization’s policy, advocacy and programs, covering a range of issues including tax justice, women’s rights, and humanitarian response. Previously, Alison was Tax and Inequality Policy Manager at Oxfam and Head of Governance & Rights at Save the Children UK.
Alison has over 15 years’ experience working in the development NGO and private sectors, including working on livelihood projects for women in India, SME development in South Africa, corporate social responsibility and business strategy at Accenture, and business and human rights. She has an MSc in Development Studies from the London School of Economics and a first degree from the Richard Ivey School of Business in Canada.

Tax journalist at Financial Times

Houlder, Vanessa

Attendance to TaxCOOP2016: Tax competition, tax coordination, and tax cooperation in a globalized world; Taxing multinationals in a globalized world

Biography:
Vanessa Houlder has worked as a journalist on the Financial Times since 1988 writing about companies, the property industry, technology, management, environment, economics, and taxation. For the past decade, she has written extensively about tax policy, in the UK and internationally. Awards include the LexisNexis tax writer of the year and prizes for investigative journalism from the Overseas Press Club of America and the Society of American Business Editors and Writers. This year, she was named as one of the Global Tax 50, a list of influential people in taxation chosen by the editorial team of the International Tax Review.

President and Chief Executive Officer, Raymond Chabot Grant Thornton

Imbriglio, Emilio, B.

Attendance to TaxCOOP2015: Déjeuner du Québec, portrait d’une fiscalité québécoise adaptée au Québec du 21e siècle

Biography:
Emilio B. Imbriglio is president and chief executive officer at Raymond Chabot Grant Thornton. He taught for 18 years at McGill and Concordia University. He is a member of Grant Thornton International Ltd’s Leadership Committee, and Board of Governors, and is also Chair of its Budget Committee, representing over 130 countries. Involved in his community, he is working to promote entrepreneurship, employment, education, and sustainable development.

Deputy Director, Fiscal Affairs Department, International Monetary Fund

Keen, Michael

Participation à TaxCOOP2016: Tax Competition: are we at war? A historical review

Biography:
Michael Keen is Deputy Director of the Fiscal Affairs Department of the International Monetary Fund, where he was previously head of the Tax Policy and Tax Coordination divisions. Before joining the Fund, he was a Professor of Economics at the University of Essex and a Visiting Professor at Kyoto University. He has led technical assistance missions to nearly thirty countries on a wide range of issues in tax policy and consulted for the World Bank, European Commission, and the private sector. He has served on the Board of the National Tax Association in the U.S., and on the editorial boards of American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, International Tax, and Public Finance (of which he was a joint founder), Journal of Public Economics, the Review of Economic Studies and many other journals. He is co-author of books on The Modern VAT, the Taxation of Petroleum and Minerals, and Changing Customs.

Strategic consultant, Geneva Centre for Security Policy

Koniuszewski, Adam

Biography:
Adam Koniuszewski, FCPA, FCA, CFA, is a Fellow of the Quebec Order of Chartered Accountants, a Chartered Financial Analyst, Associate Fellow of the World Academy of Art and Science (WAAS), is also a Fellow Executive in Residence at the Geneva Center for Security Policy (GCSP) and Senior Advisor to TaxCOOP.
After an international business career in finance, strategy and public affairs, Adam Koniuszewski turned his focus to diplomatic, environmental and security matters by joining President Mikhail Gorbachev as Executive Director of Green Cross International in 2008.
He is now involved in creating educational initiatives for youth and businesses. He launched The Bridge Foundation initiative in 2009 to raise awareness about global challenges and promote a circular economy. The Foundation engages youth and opinion leaders on global issues through its “Education is a Window to the World” program active in Canada, Poland, and Switzerland.
On the invitation of former French Environment Minister Corinne Lepage, Mr. Koniuszewski helped draft a “Declaration of the Rights and Duties of Humanity” and organized the launch of a campaign for its endorsement in Geneva with the support of 40 million scouts. The Declaration was presented at the 2015 Paris Climate Conference and at the UN General Assembly. Mr. Koniuszewski continues to promote the Declaration for its adoption by the United Nations.
Mr. Koniuszewski is a sought-after speaker on international fora on topics ranging from business and sustainability to climate change and international cooperation.

Chair of the Independant Advisory Board for Senate Appointments, Chair of the IACC Council; C.C., Ph.d., LL.D

Labelle, Huguette

Huguette Labelle has served for a period of nineteen years as Deputy Minister of different Canadian Government departments including Secretary of State, Transport Canada, the Public Service Commission and the Canadian International Development Agency. A former Chancellor of the University of Ottawa, former Chair of transparency International and former Board member of the UN Global Compact. She has also served on several additional  boards. 

She is currently Chair of the Independent Advisory Board for Senate Appointments,  Chair of the IACC Council, Vice-Chair of the Rideau Hall Foundation Board, Vice-Chair of the International Senior Advisory Board of the International Anti-Corruption Academy, member of the Advisory Group to the OECD Secretary General on Anti-Corruption and Integrity, member of the Board of the Global Centre for Pluralism, Board member of Global Financial Integrity, Board member of the Aga Khan Museum, member of the IIRC Governance and Nominations Committee, member Advisory Board RESOLVE and Chair of the Selection Committee for Master’s Scholarships on Sustainable Energy Development.

Economist, Laffer Curve, Author

Laffer, Arthur B.

Attendance to TaxCOOP2018: The debate.

Biography:
Famous American liberal economist, born August 14, 1940, Arthur B. Laffer obtained his Ph.D. in Economics from Stanford University in 1972.
His fame goes back to the mid-1970s when he demonstrates that “too much tax kills the tax” with the now famous Laffer curve. In the late ’70s, Mr. Laffer is the first economist to advance the possibility of applying this finding to the US tax system. The Laffer curve has influenced a global tax reduction movement since the 1980s.
From 1967 to 1976, Mr. Laffer was a member of the Faculty of Economics at the University of Chicago Graduate School of Business and Associate Professor, from 1970 to 1976. From 1970 to 1972, he was the first to hold the title of Chief Economist at the Office of Management and Budget. From 1972 to 1977, Arthur B. Laffer was a consultant to Treasury Secretary William Simon, Defense Secretary Don Rumsfeld and Secretary of the Treasury George Shultz. Mr. Laffer was a senior adviser to the Reagan Administration (1981-1989). More recently, Dr. Laffer advised Donald Trump on his campaign for the presidency of the United States in 2016.
Dr. Laffer is the author of several books, including The End of Prosperity, How Higher Taxes Will Doom the Economy If We Let It Happen, published in 2008, and nominated for the FA Hayek Book Award in 2009. He also wrote Return to Prosperity in 2010 and the New York Times Best Seller An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of States, and its sequel Wealth of States: More Ways to Enhance Freedom, Opportunity, and Growth.
Dr. Laffer has been widely acknowledged for his economic achievements. He was noted in Time magazine’s March 29, 1999, cover story “The Century’s Greatest Minds” for inventing the Laffer Curve, which is deemed one of “a few of the advances that powered this extraordinary century.” He was listed in “A Dozen Who Shaped the ’80s,” in the Los Angeles Times on Jan. 1, 1990, and in “A Gallery of the Greatest People Who Influenced Our Daily Business,” in The Wall Street Journal on June 23, 1989. His creation of the Laffer Curve was deemed a “memorable event” in financial history by the Institutional Investor in its July 1992 Silver Anniversary issue, “The Heroes, Villains, Triumphs, Failures and Other Memorable Events.” In addition, Bloomberg Businessweek selected the Laffer Curve as one of the “85 Most Disruptive Ideas in Our History” for its 85th-anniversary issue in 2014. Furthermore, he was awarded the Hayek Lifetime Achievement Award in 2016
Since 1979, Mr. Arthur B. Laffer has been the founder and chairman of Laffer Associates, a firm specializing in economic research that provides global investment research services to institutional asset managers, pension funds, institutions, and companies. Laffer Investments, meanwhile, offers unique investment strategies managed by the portfolio management group of the company.

Managing Partner, Richter

Lagios, Tasso

Attendance to TaxCOOP2015: Competing when your competitors don’t pay taxes. Insiders’views and solutions

Biography:
Tasso Lagios has over 23 years of experience counseling numerous Canadian-controlled private companies as well as public corporations. His expertise covers a broad range of industries, including real estate, distribution, retail, and manufacturing. Mr. Lagios is currently Managing Partner of the firm. He also practices in the area of taxation and works with companies to meet their overall business objectives while ensuring that tax matters are properly addressed. As Managing Partner, Mr. Lagios created the Richter Approach, which allows the firm to further distinguish itself not only in the services it provides the entrepreneurial market but also in how such services are provided. This approach allows Richter to continue to be a unique financial advisory firm both in Canada and the United States.
As a tax partner, Mr. Lagios serves the firm’s significant clients on both domestic and international matters including their business structures as well as transfer pricing matters. Over the years, Mr. Lagios has written numerous papers and spoken as a guest lecturer on topics ranging from corporate reorganizations to international taxation as well as industry-specific topics such as real estate and retail. He has also lectured at McGill University, the Ordre des comptables professionnels agréés du Québec, the Canadian Tax Foundation and various private events.

Research Chair in Taxation and Public Finance, Sherbrooke University

Latulippe, Lyne

Attendance to TaxCOOP2019; TaxCOOP2018; TaxCOOP2017; TaxCOOP2016; TaxCOOP2015: Competition and taxation: a look at the landscape-2015; Tax competition: an unleveled playing field for developing countries?-2016; Let’s start planning for the future-2017

Biography:
LATULIPPE, LYNE Associate Professor and Researcher Chair in Taxation and Tax Policy, Sherbrooke University
Lyne Latulippe is a taxation professor at the Université de Sherbrooke since 2013. She holds a law degree from the University of Montreal and a master’s degree in taxation from the Université de Sherbrooke. She worked for the tax department at Deloitte from 1995 to 2004, and then she completed a Ph.D. with the political science department at Concordia University. From 2006 to 2013, she was a taxation professor at ESG UQAM.
Her main research interests are the development and implementation of national and international tax policy, international tax governance and actors involved. She is an associate researcher for the Research Chair in Taxation and Public Finance at the Université de Sherbrooke and she has been involved in projects addressing tax fairness, aggressive tax planning and transfer pricing.
She authored and co-authored articles and book chapters and she regularly participates in conferences with a focus on political science and tax policy, in Canada and abroad.

Minister of Economics and Finances, France

Le Maire, Bruno

Biography:
Bruno Le Maire, who was born on 15 April 1969 in Neuilly-sur-Seine, is a French politician
and diplomat.
He currently holds the position of Minister for the Economy and Finances in
Edouard Philippe’s government under Emmanuel Macron’s presidency.
An alumnus of the École normale supérieure, holder of a higher degree (agrégation) in
French language and literature, a graduate of Sciences Po Paris and former student at the
École nationale d’administration (ENA), Bruno Le Maire began his career as Foreign Affairs
Adviser at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (known as the Quai d’Orsay). In 2002, he became
Strategic Affairs Adviser to the Minister of Foreign Affairs followed by Adviser to the
Minister of the Interior in 2004. In 2005, he joined Prime Minister Dominique de Villepin at
Hôtel Matignon, first as an adviser and then as his Chief of Staff from 2006 to 2007.
In June 2007, he was elected as MP for the first constituency of the Eure département.
In December 2008, he was named Minister of State for European Affairs in François Fillon’s
government before being appointed Minister for Agriculture and Fisheries in June 2009. He
held the latter position until May 2012.
In 2012, he was re-elected as MP for the Eure département.
In October 2012, he resigned from the foreign affairs advisers corps of the senior civil
service.
In November 2014, he was candidate for the presidency of the UMP party and took part in
the centre-right primary for the French presidential election in November 2016.
In 2017, he was re-elected as MP for the Eure département.

Chief, Internatonal Tax Cooperation Section, Financing for Development Office, United Nations

Lennard, Michael

Attendance to TaxCOOP2017 and TaxCOOP2015: Debate-2017; Déjeuner du Québec, Portrait d’une fiscalité québécoise adaptée au Québec du 21e siècle-2015

Biographye:
Michael Lennard is Chief of the International Tax Cooperation Section in the Financing for Development Office of the UN. His work focuses on ensuring the fairness and workability of international tax norms, including achieving greater developing country input into those norms, and encouraging cooperation to improve tax systems as a spur to sustained development that benefits all stakeholders in tax systems. As Secretary of the UN Tax Committee, he was the original proposer that the Committee considers guidance on transfer pricing and that it be in the form of a Practical Handbook for Developing Countries. Previously Mr. Lennard was a tax treaty adviser in the OECD Tax Treaty Secretariat for 3 years and prior to that he worked on tax treaty and other international tax matters at the ATO.

Minister of the Environment, France (1995-1997), Member of the European Parliament (2009-2014)

Lepage, Corrine

Attendance to TaxCOOP2016: To broaden the overall tax base: to tax for the promotion of public goods, the tax on carbon emissions

Biography:
French politician Corinne Lepage trained as a lawyer before setting up a practice specialized in public and environmental law, where she made her name defending victims of the Amoco Cadiz oil spill in 1978. She went to defend victims of the Erika disaster in 199. She was also a founding member of the Committee for Independent Research and Information on Genetic Engineering. In 1995, she was made the Environment minister in the French government just as France was taking over the presidency of the Council. She spent two years as the head of the ministry, where her achievements included a major overhaul of the air legislation. She helped set up the prevention and precaution committee, and put in the place the first national sustainable development strategy in 1997, removed public powers from the asbestos committee, prevented the relaunch of the Superphénix nuclear project, and pushed through a moratorium on GMOs. In 2008, she oversaw a report for the French government on “Environmental Governance” which included more than 80 recommendations, with ten headline measures designed to boost French confidence in information about the environment, including proposals to improve such information, strengthen the requirements for specialist studies, and clarify responsibility for pollution, all of which was presented during the French Council presidency in 2008.
She has often acted as an expert at the European level (including on the 6th Environmental Action Programme) and was named on a UNEP list in 2006 of the ten most important women for the environment in Europe.
She teaches at the Institute of Political Studies in Paris, where she heads the sustainable development section.
In 1996 she set up a CAP 21, a think tank that subsequently turned into a political party. She stood as a candidate during the French presidential elections in 2002 as a center-right candidate and supported François Bayrou in 2007. She was elected to the European parliament in June 2009, where she is part of the ALDE group. She was appointed vice-chair of the Committee on the Environment, Public Health, and Food Safety, and is a substitute on the Committee on Industry, Research and Energy. For 5 years, she was part of the official delegation of 15 MEPs in UNFCCC COP from Copenhagen to Varsaw.
In the ALDE group, she is closely involved with the directives concerning GMO, biofuels, IPPC, RoHS, WEEE, novel foods, information for consumers, and on themes such as climate change, the energy mix, independent appraisals, the link between health and the environment, the freedom of the web, civil liberties and fundamental freedoms.
Her knowledge of maritime matters enabled her to found the intergroup on “Seas and coastal zones” in the European Parliament, a group she has chaired since January 2010.
In March 2010, alongside some thirty figures who have served as environment ministers around the world, she set up another think tank (the association of ex-ministers of the Environment and ex-directors of international environmental organizations) to study problems concerning international ecological governance.
She is the author of a number of books including La Politique de précaution, en coll. avec François Guéry (2000), Santé & Environnement : l’ABCdaire (2005), Ecoresp 1&2, Vivre autrement (2009), Entre colère et espoirs (2009), Sans le nucléaire on s’éclairerait à la bougie et autres tartes à la crème du discours technoscientifique (2010), La vérité sur le nucléaire (2011), La vérité sur les OGM (2012), L’état Nucléaire (2014), Les femmes au secours de la République, de l’Europe,… de la planète (2015), L’atlas mondial du nucléaire (2015)

Former U.S. Senator, Michigan, Chairman at the Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations

Levin, Carl

Attendance to TaxCOOP2016: The main conference

Biography:
Carl Levin is Michigan’s longest-serving U.S. senator (Jan. 3, 1979, to Jan. 3, 2015). He is chair of the Levin Center at Wayne Law and serves as the Law School’s distinguished legislator in residence, co-teaching courses on various subjects, including tax law and policy and legislative process and oversight. In addition, he is senior counsel to Honigman Miller Schwartz and Cohn LLP. In his 36-year Senate career, Levin earned respect from his colleagues on both sides of the political aisle for his integrity, resourcefulness and diligence, and ability to build consensus. He became one of the nation’s most respected leaders on national security, a powerful voice for equality and justice, and a fighter for economic fairness. In the Senate, his top priority was the economic well-being of Michigan families. He was a consistent voice for support of American manufacturing and was one of the Senate’s strongest advocates for policies that would help American manufacturers compete globally. He was also co-chair of the Senate Auto Caucus. Another of Levin’s signature issues was protecting Michigan’s diverse natural environment. As co-chair of the Senate Great Lakes Task Force, he successfully worked to increase funding for Great Lakes environmental restoration and to preserve the natural, historical and cultural legacy of the lakes, including historic lighthouses. He supported Great Lakes harbors, played a leading role in helping found the Thunder Bay National Marine Sanctuary and Keweenaw National Historical Park, and successfully passed legislation to preserve Michigan wilderness areas, including Sleeping Bear Dunes Lakeshore. As chair of the Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations of the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, he held public and private institutions to high standards of accountability, rooting out waste, fraud and abuse. He was known for carrying out bipartisan, fact-based and fair inquiries that led to meaningful reforms. His landmark Enron investigation supported passage of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002, strengthening U.S. financial reporting and accounting rules. The Levin-led subcommittee produced the only bipartisan report on key causes of the 2008 financial crisis, paved the way for credit card reforms that benefited millions of families and held hearings that helped break the filibuster of the Dodd-Frank Act of 2010, eventually leading to the most significant financial market reforms in a generation. As chair of the Senate Armed Services Committee, Levin focused on taking care of the men and women of the military and their families, supporting pay raises and improvements in treatment and other policies for wounded warriors. He led oversight efforts to improve efficiency and reduce cost overruns in expensive weapons programs. He opposed the resolution giving Congressional authorization to the 2003 invasion of Iraq, offering an alternative resolution that would have given time for U.N. inspectors to complete their search for weapons of mass destruction and require the administration to seek international support before taking military action. He supported military action to eliminate the al-Qaida threat in Afghanistan. He consistently supported policies that would encourage Afghan leaders to take responsibility for their nation’s security. Levin was honored as one of Time’s 10 best senators. His many awards and honorary degrees include the Detroit Free Press/Metropolitan Affairs Coalition Neal Shine Award for Exemplary Regional Leadership, 2014; Lyndon B. Johnson Foundation LBJ Liberty & Justice for All Award, 2014; Detroit Branch NAACP James Weldon Johnson Lifetime Achievement Award, 2014; Michigan Association of Broadcasters Distinguished Lifetime of Public Service Award, 2014; Michigan League of Conservation Voters Lifetime Achievement Award, 2014; Anti-Defamation League of Michigan Torch of Liberty Award, 2014; Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt Foundation’s Four Freedoms Medal, 2007; Global Service Award, World Affairs Council, 2007; National Marine Sanctuary Stewardship Award, 2005; National Guard Association of the U.S. Harry S. Truman Award, 2004; and Secretary of the Navy Distinguished Public Service Award, 2003.

Executive Director, Covi

Macfarland, Caroline

Attendance to TaxCOOP2017: Forum for the future

Biography:
Caroline Macfarland is the founder and director of Common Vision (CoVi), an independent, not-for-profit think tank with a mission to inspire civic engagement and policy understanding amongst the millennial generation. Common Vision host the UK’s Responsible Tax Lab, a network of businesses and civil society organizations working together to co-design a tax system that is fit for purpose for the future (www.responsibletax.org.uk).
Caroline was previously managing director at the think tank ResPublica, one of the founding team members of the foundation Power to Change, and a special advisor to the Big Lottery Fund. She is a board member of the UK Cohousing Trust and a British Council Hammamet Fellow. She is a regular commentator for the UK and international publications and media outlets. In 2015, she was named one of Management Today’s 35 women under 35.

Assistant Professor of Law, University of California, Irvine School of Law

Marian, Omri

Attendance TaxCOOP2016: How tax transparency could lead to better global tax rules-2016

Biography:
Omri Marian is an assistant professor of law at the University of California, Irvine School of Law. He specializes in international taxation, and taxation of financial instruments. Professor Marian studied the documents leaks in the LuxLeaks scandal, and his article on the LuxLeaks documents, “The State Administration of International Tax Avoidance”, is forthcoming in the Harvard Business Law Review. Before joining UC Irvine School of Law, he was an assistant professor of law at the University of Florida. He also practiced as a tax associate at the New York office of Sullivan & Cromwell LLP. He holds an SJD and an LLm from the University of Michigan.

Lead Public Health Specialist and Co-Coordinator Global Tobacco Control Program, Health, Nutritioin and Population (HNP) Global Practice, The World Bank

Marquez, Patricio

Attendance to TaxCOOP2016: To broaden the overall tax base: to tax for the promotion of public goods, the tax on tobacco

Biography:
Patricio V. Marquez is a World Bank Lead Health Specialist, who is leading the Global Tobacco Control Initiative at the World Bank Group. He co-coordinated a WBG/WHO multi-institution, Working Group on Global Mental Health that organized the global conference “Out of the Shadows: Making Mental Health a Global Development Priority” held on April 13-14, 2016 as part of the WBG/IMF Spring Meetings. He is a member of the Global Work Group of the Advisory Committee to the Director (ACD) of the US CDC, providing recommendations and counsel to the ACD on global public health issues. He served as Public Health Focal Point at the Health, Nutrition and Population Global Practice of the World Bank over June 2014-June 2015, co-led the WBG team that designed the Ebola Emergency Response Program for West Africa and prepared the US$390 million Ebola Emergency Response Project for Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone, and was deployed to WHO Geneva to help coordinate the WB and WHO interface on the Global Response to Ebola over the September-December 2014 period.

Directeur, Development Finance International

Martin, Matthew

Attendance to TaxCOOP2017: Tax cooperation: experiences and challenges in Africa

Biography:
Matthew Martin is Director at Development Finance International. Formerly with the World Bank, Overseas Development Institute and Oxford University, he has been advising developing countries, international organizations and donors on development financing and debt issues since 1991. He handles design and liaison with developing country policymakers, donors and regional and international partner organizations. His specializations are in debt relief, analyzing the quality and sustainability of new aid and private flows, and fiscal, financial sector and macroeconomic issues.

Director, Club suisse de la presse

Mettan, Guy

Attendance to TaxCOOP2017: The impact of tax competition on MNEs, SMEs, and Individuals

Biography:
Guy Mettan is executive director of the Swiss Press Club of which he is a founding member. A journalist, Guy Mettan is the author of several articles published in the Swiss press and he has participated in the work of UNESCO in which he proposed to create a deontological oath of journalists. In 2001 he was appointed Vice-President of the Swiss-West African Chamber of Commerce and in 2006, President of the Geneva Red Cross.

Economist Senior Fellow, Cato Institute

Mitchell, Dan

Attendance to TaxCOOP2020; TaxCOOP2018; TaxCOOP2017; TaxCOOP2016; TaxCOOP2015: The debate-2020; The debate-2018; The debate-2017; The debate-2016; Corporate tax on trial-2015

Biography:
Dan Mitchell is a Senior Fellow at the Cato Institute. He is one of the nation’s experts on the flat tax and has been the leading international voice in the fight to preserve tax competition, financial privacy, and fiscal sovereignty. Dan’s work has been published in the Wall Street Journal, New York Times, Washington Times, Washington Post, National Review, Villanova Law Review, Public Choice, Journal of Regulation and Social Cost, Emory Law Journal, Forbes, USA Today, Offshore Investment, Playboy, Investor’s Business Daily, and Worldwide Reinsurance Review. A frequent commentator on TV, he has appeared on all the major networks, including CBS, NBC, ABC, CNBC, FOX, CNN, CNBC, and C-SPAN. In addition to his Cato Institute responsibilities, Dan co-founded the Center for Freedom and Prosperity, an organization formed to protect international tax competition.
Prior to joining The Cato Institute in 2007, Dan served as a Senior Fellow at the Heritage Foundation. Dan also served as an economist for Senator Bob Packwood of Oregon and spent more than three years beginning every day by co-hosting a television show. Born in Mt. Kisco, NY, Dan Mitchell earned a Ph.D. in economics from George Mason University and undergraduate and Masters’degrees from the University of Georgia.

Senior Adviser on Finance and Development, South Centre in Geneva

Montes, Manuel

Attendance to TaxCOOP2018; TaxCOOP2017; TaxCOOP2016: The debate-2018; the debate-2017; Tax competition: an unleveled playing field for developing countries?-2016

Biography:
Manuel F. Montes, Senior Advisor on Finance and Development at the South Centre in Geneva, was previously Chief of Development Strategies, United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs (UNDESA) Before that, in UNDESA, he was Chief of Policy Analysis and Development and Secretary of the UN Committee of Experts on Cooperation in International Tax Matters; UNDP Regional Programme Coordinator, Asia Pacific Trade and Investment Initiative, Sri Lanka; Programme Officer for International Economic Policy at the Ford Foundation in New York, 1999-2005; Senior Fellow and Coordinator for economics studies at the East-West Centre in Honolulu, 1989-1999; and Associate Professor of Economics at the University of The Philippines, 1981-1989. He holds a Ph.D. in Economics from Stanford University.

Lead Economist, Global Tax Team Economic Growth, Finance and Institutions (EFI) Vice president, The World Bank

Moreno-Dodson, Blanca

Attendance to TaxCOOP2016 et TaxCOOP2015: Debate-2017; Tax competition: an unleveled playing field for developing countries?-2016; From global to local tax competition: when tax competition hits close to home-2015

Biography:
Mrs. Blanca Moreno-Dodson is an experienced development economist with 21 years of World Bank service worldwide, especially in Africa and Latin America. She is accomplished in macroeconomics and fiscal policy for developing countries, with a focus on growth, inequality and poverty reduction. She is skilled in public expenditure analysis, fiscal sustainability, tax reforms, and transfer pricing, among others. Previously, she worked as a junior economist at the European Union (European Commission and European Parliament). She is the editor of three World Bank books: “Reducing Poverty on a Global Scale”, 2005, “Public Finance for Poverty Reduction”, 2007, and “Is Fiscal Policy the Answer? A Developing Country Perspective”, 2012. She has also published on macroeconomics, public finance, growth, and poverty issues at the National Tax Association Journal, Banca d’Italia Fiscal Policy Annual Volume, Hacienda Pública Española Journal, and Bulletin of Economic Research, as well as several World Bank Working Papers. She holds a Ph.D. and a Masters in International Economics and Finance from the Aix-Marseille II University, France, as well as a Masters in Economics from the Madrid Autonomous University, Spain. She is fluent in Spanish, French, English, and Portuguese.

Tax Director of the Office of Tax Simplification, HM Treasury, United Kingdom

Morton, Paul

Attendance to TaxCOOP2017: Let’s start planning for the future

Biography:
Paul Morton was appointed Tax Director of the Office of Tax Simplification on 1st March 2017. Prior to that, he was Tax Director for RELX Group plc (formerly Reed Elsevier), the global information and analytics group, for twelve years. He was actively engaged with the OECD and tax policymakers in the UK, US and the Netherlands and at the EU level on tax policy matters relating to the digital economy and many other aspects of tax policy. Previously, he was a tax manager and adviser at Royal Dutch Shell in a number of the UK and overseas roles over a period of 16 years. He moved to Shell from KPMG where he focused on international tax and insurance companies. He began his career in tax, after reading Microbiology at University College London, when he joined the Inland Revenue as a tax inspector.
He is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Taxation, a member of the Council of the Institute for Fiscal Studies and the Tax Law Review Committee, an adviser to the International Chamber of Commerce Taxation Commission, a member of the Executive Committee of the International Fiscal Association and a past President of the Confederation Fiscale Europeenne.

President, Chief Executive Officer and Secretary, Ordre des CPA du Quebec

Mottard, Geneviève

Attendance to TaxCOOP2017 and TaxCOOP2020-World Tax Summit: Forum for the future-2017

Biography:
A graduate of Concordia University and Queens University’s Leadership Program, Geneviève Mottard began her career at EY, where she assumed increasing responsibilities until 2010 when she was Senior Team Leader within the Certification Services Group in Montreal.
She then joined the Canadian Public Accountability Board, the audit regulator responsible for protecting the interests of the Canadian investing public, as the regional director for Eastern Canada.
Geneviève Mottard’s leadership and diplomacy led her last year, at the age of 42, to the bar of the CPA, the third-largest professional order in Quebec with 39,000 members. In this capacity, she chairs CPA Canada’s Committee on Public Confidence.
Geneviève has also been involved since 1997 as a volunteer on the Board of Directors of the Canadian Deafness Research and Training Institute.

Author, Tax researcher, Chartered accountant, Political economist, Tax Research LLP, 7th Most influential people in Global Tax (2014)

Murphy, Richard

Attendance to TaxCOOP2018; TaxCOOP2016; TaxCOOP2015: The debate- 2018; How to tax wealth more efficiently? Other tax instruments-2016; Corporate tax on trial-2015

Biography:
Richard Murphy is a chartered accountant and an economist. It has been described by The Guardian newspaper as “militant anti-poverty and a tax expert.” He was named the 7th“most influential personality in the world of taxation” by International Tax Review in 2013. Since 2003, Mr. Murphy has been involved increasingly in matters of economic policy and taxation.

He is a founder of the Tax Justice Network and is director of Tax Research LLP, a firm that does work on taxation policies, advocacy and research for humanitarian agencies, trade unions, and NPOs other organizations in the UK and elsewhere. Richard Murphy is the instigator of several new issues in the debates on tax policy. Specifically, he created the entirely new concept of accounting statements by country, which is now studied with a view to implementation by the European Union, the OECD, the International Accounting Standards Board and others.

Richard Murphy has written extensively and blog regularly. He has featured in many radio and television documentaries on taxation issues. He also made oral and written presentations before committees of the House of Commons and House of Lords. Mr. Murphy was a guest fellow at the Portsmouth University Business School, the Centre for Global Political Economy from the University of Sussex, and the Tax Research Institute of the University of Nottingham. He is co-author of “Tax Havens: How Globalization Really Works”, published by Cornell University Press in 2009, and the author of “The Courageous State”, published by Searching Finance in 2011, and “Over Here and Under Taxed “, published by Vintage Books in 2013. in October 2012, the Association of International accountants presented him with his award for outstanding contribution to the accounting profession

Legal practicioner

Museredza, Chiedza

Attendance to TaxCOOP2017: Forum for the future

Biography:
Chiedza Museredza holds an LL.B from the University of Cape Town, South Africa. During her LL.B she was selected by CBL International to attend summer school at the University of Oxford where she studied selected issues in Corporate Tax in the European Union. After completing her LL.B she worked in Zimbabwe where she was involved in tax litigation assisting with representing the country’s revenue authority. She recently graduated from Osgoode Hall Law School with an LL.M in International Business Law. During her LL.M she focused her research on international tax, particularly on BEPS. Her paper titled “the effect of OECD BEPS Action 2 on Canada-US hybrid mismatch arrangements” was published by Thomas Reuters in a text titled Law in International Finance. She has also written a paper on BEPs and e-commerce transact

Professor, Université de Genève

Oberson, Xavier

Attendance to TaxCOOP2018 and TaxCOOP2017: Rising stars cocktail-2018; The impact of tax competition on MNEs, SMEs and Individuals-2017

Biography
Xavier Oberson is a professor of Swiss and international fiscal law at the University of Geneva. He is also an associate lawyer at Oberson Abels. He has published numerous books and articles in the field of Swiss and international fiscal law. He participates closely in various associations, commissions of experts or foundations active in the field of tax law. Starting in 2016, he began to take an interest in the issue of the taxation of robots and their activities. In this context, various scientific studies have been published or are about to be published. It has also been actively involved in the preparation of the
Business Tax Reform III. He is also a member of the Founding Council of the Montreux Jazz Festival Foundation, as well as President of the Montreux Jazz Artists Foundation and of the Foundation Council of the Center d'Art Contemporain de Genève.

Professor of Tax Law, Department of Taxation and the African Tax Institute in the Faculty of Economic and Management Sciences, University Pretoria; author

Oguttu, Annet

Biography:
Annet Wanyana Oguttu is a professor of tax law, in the Department of Taxation and the African Tax Institute, in Faculty of Economic and Management Sciences at the University of Pretoria. She holds a Doctorate in tax law, a Masters in tax law, LLB degree, HDip International Tax Law and a Diploma in Legal Practice. Her field of expertise is International Tax law.

Former Tax Director and Advisor to the Minister of Finance, Colombia

Ortega, Juan Ricardo

Attendance to TaxCOOP2016: Tax competition, tax coordination, and tax cooperation in a globalized world

Biography:
Bogotà born in 1967, Ortega is an economist at the University of the Andes, Master in Finance, Economics and Mathematics from Yale University and a Ph.D. candidate in Economic Development at the same university. He is the son of Francisco Ortega, former manager of the Bank of the Republic for 30 years. He worked with Andrés Pastrana as Economic Counsellor of the Presidency of the Republic between 2000 and 2002. In addition, he served as Director-General Fogafin and Deputy Minister of Finance under President Uribe and advisor to the Inter-American Development Bank. Previously, he was chief economist of BBVA Colombia and director of the Department of Economic Studies National Planning Department, when the general manager of that entity was Jaime Ruiz.

International administrative judge and arbitrator, Adjunct Professor, McGill University

Otis, Louise

Attendance to TaxCOOP2019; TaxCOOP2018; TaxCOOP2017; TaxCOOP2016; TaxCOOP2015: The debate- 2018; The debate-2017; the debate-2016; Corporate tax on trial-2015

Biography:
Louise Otis is President of the Administrative Tribunal of the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD). She is also President of the Appeal Court at the International Organization of La Francophonie (IOF). She is a member of the Administrative Tribunal of the European Organisation for the Exploitation of Meteorological Satellites (EUMETSAT).
She is a retired Justice of the Quebec Court of Appeal where she spearheaded the introduction of judicial mediation. She participated in over 3000 judgments in civil, commercial and criminal law. She has conducted over 700 mediation sessions in commercial and civil law.
Louise Otis works as a civil and commercial mediator and arbitrator at the Canadian and international levels. She is also an Adjunct Professor at McGill University’s Faculty of Law. She is a distinguished fellow of the International Academy of Mediators (IAM).
Louise Otis regularly participates in international governance and justice reform missions with the United Nations (UN), International Monetary Fund (IMF), World Bank (WB) and the International Finance Corporation (IFC) member of the World Bank Group (WB). Louise Otis was appointed by the United Nations Secretary-General to a 5-member panel of independent international experts in charge of redesigning the United Nations system of administration of Justice. She has created a system of transitional justice for countries affected by armed conflicts and/or environmental disasters.

Director at the WU Global Tax Policy Center (Institute for Austrian and International Tax Law), WU (Wirtschaftsuniversität Wien, Vienna University of Economics and Business)

Owens, Jeffrey

Jeffrey Owens completed his doctoral work at Cambridge University in the United Kingdom in 1973. In addition to his economic degrees, he is a qualified accountant. He is now the Director of the WU Global Tax Policy Center (WU GTPC) at the Institute for Austrian and International Tax Law, WU (Wirtschaftsuniversität Wien, Vienna
University of Economics and Business). In addition to his academic role, Jeffrey also serves as a Senior Policy Advisor to the Global Vice Chair of Tax at EY, and as a Senior Advisor to the United Nations Tax Committee, the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) and UNCTAD and a number of regional tax administration organizations and is
also involved with a number of NGOs. He has focused his attention on questions of tax policy and tax administration, with particular emphasis on international taxation and related domestic issues. His earlier work dealt with the development of international currency markets and the implications for monetary policies.
For over 20 years, Jeffrey led the OECD tax work, establishing a major taxation
program at the OECD and extensively developed the OECD contacts with non-member countries. He also initiated the dialogue with the G20 on taxation and oversaw the G20/OECD initiatives to improve tax transparency, laying the foundation for the Base Erosion Profit Shifting (BEPS) work. He headed OECD’s global taxation policy work as
director of the OECD’s Center for Tax Policy and Administration (CTPA) from 2001-2012, and continues to be active in academia, tax practice, and policy.
He has made numerous contributions to professional journals, has published a number of books and has been the author of many OECD publications on taxation. Jeffrey’s engagement with government, business and academia, and his frequent participation in international conferences, gives him a unique international perspective on tax policy.
Jeffrey has membership of the following professional associations: Institute of
Management Accountants, UK; International Institute of Public Finance; a Member of the Editorial Board of the Institut des Finances Publiques, Board member of European Forum Alpbach (EFA); and an Honorary member of the International Fiscal Association.
He writes a regular column for Tax Notes International and the IBFD Bulletin, as well as contributing to the popular press.
He has been awarded the International Achievement Award (Lincoln Institute,
Cambridge, USA) and been nominated by Time Magazine as one of the “ten top people that shape European business”. Tax Business identified him as “the fourth most influential figure in the tax world”, and International Tax Review “as one of the 21st biggest influences in tax today”. Additionally, for his contributions to the International tax community, he was awarded the “Companion of the Order of Saint Michael and Saint George” by the Queen of the United Kingdom in 2013.

Dean, School of Business at Université du Québec à Montréal

Pallage, Stéphane

Attendance to TaxCOOP2017 et TaxCOOP2015: The debate-2017; Let’s start planning for the future – 2017; Déjeuner du Québec Portrait d’une fiscalité québécoise adaptée au Québec du 21e siècle-2015

Biography:
Stéphane Pallage is the Dean of UQAM’s School of Business (ESG UQAM) and a Professor of Economics in this School. A native of Belgium and a Canadian citizen, he is a PhD graduate in Economics of Carnegie Mellon’s Tepper School of Business, where he worked closely with Nobel Laureate Finn Kydland. His articles on foreign aid, child labor, economic fluctuations and optimal social programs have been published in many international reviews.

Entrepreneur, Millionaire

Parks, Bill

Attendance to TaxCOOP2016: Taxing multinationals in a globalized world

Biography:
Bill Parks is the founding president of NRS Inc., the world’s largest seller of paddle sports accessories in the world with customers in over 80 countries. NRS is now 100% employee-owned. He was a delegate to the 1986 White House Conference on Small Business Before and during his business career. Retired since 1994, he received his Ph.D. in finance from Michigan State University and taught at the University of Oregon, Colorado State University and the University of Idaho. He continues his research on corporate taxation and has several articles in Tax Notes and other publications

Coordinator, Tobacco Economics Program, Formly Deputy Secretary of Finance, Philippines, WHO, Architect of the 2013 Sin Tax Policy Reform in the Philippines

Paul, Jeremias

Attendance to TaxCOOP2016: To broaden the overall tax base: to tax for the promotion of public goods, the tax on tobacco

Biography:
Jeremias N. Paul, Jr. is a seasoned government official, having held various positions in the Department of Finance since 1990. In more than two decades now, he has practically done the rounds of all the units in the Department, including being Assistant Secretary of the International Finance Group and being Undersecretary of the Corporate Affairs Group. In 2005-2006, he served as Alternate Executive Director of the World Bank Group in Washington D.C. and spearheaded governance reforms in G-24 when the Philippines was Chair. Currently, for more than three years now, Jun Paul has been heading the Domestic Finance Group, standing at the helm of government initiatives to reform the country’s fiscal and tax systems, including the “Sin Tax Reform” law” which restructured the Philippine excise tax system for alcohol and tobacco products.

Deputy Director, Center for Tax Policy and Administration for Economic Co-operation and Development

Perez-Navarro, Grace

Attendance TaxCOOP2016: Tax competition: an unleveled playing field for developing countries?

Biography:
Grace Perez-Navarro is the Deputy Director of the OECD’s Centre for Tax Policy and Administration. As such, she plays a key role in all of the OECD’s tax work including the tax challenges of digitalization, the Base Erosion, and Profit Shifting (BEPS) Project, improving international tax cooperation, tackling illicit financial flows, promoting better tax policies and engaging developing countries in OECD tax work. Since joining the OECD in 1997, she has held several key positions, including having led the OECD’s tax work on bank secrecy, e-commerce, harmful tax practices, money laundering, and tax crimes, countering bribery of foreign officials, and strengthening all forms of administrative cooperation between tax authorities. Prior to joining the OECD, she was a Special Counsel at the IRS Office of the Associate Chief Counsel (International) where she coordinated guidance to field offices on international tax issues, oversaw litigation of international tax issues, negotiated TIEAs and treaties, and reviewed regulations, rulings, and other policy advice. In 1993, she was seconded to the OECD to launch the revision of the OECD’s Transfer Pricing Guidelines.

Assisitant Director, Fiscal Affairs Department, Chief of the Tax Policy division at the International Monetary Fund

Perry, Victoria

Attendance to TaxCOOP2016: Tax competition: an unleveled playing field for developing countries?

Biography:
Victoria Perry is Assistant Director in the Fiscal Affairs Department and Division Chief of the Tax Policy Division at the International Monetary Fund. Since joining the IMF in 1993, she has provided technical assistance in tax policy and revenue administration to more than 40 countries in Africa, Europe, and Asia. From 2002 to 2008 she served as Division Chief for Revenue Administration in FAD. She is a co-author of the book The Modern VAT, published by the IMF in 2001. Prior to joining the IMF, Ms. Perry was the Deputy Director of the Harvard University International Tax Program, teaching comparative income taxation and value-added taxation and providing technical assistance in revenue policy through the Harvard Institute for International Development. Ms. Perry previously practiced tax law with the Boston law firm of Hale and Dorr (now WilmerHale). She is past President of the American Tax Policy Institute; a member of the Board of the National Tax Association; and past Chair of the Value Added Tax Committee of the American Bar Association Section of Taxation. She received her J.D. from the Harvard Law School and her B.A. from Yale University in economics and philosophy.

CEO and founder, Guanomad

Rajaonary, Erick

Attendance to TaxCOOP2017: What about great entrepreneurs? What do they think about taxes?

Biography:
A Chartered accountant, Erick Rajaonary is the founder and CEO of Malagasy company Guanomad. Specializing in the production of organic fertilizers based on bat droppings, this company based in Antananarivo is today the leader of organic fertilizer production in Madagascar and exports to the international market.
Erick Rajaonary is a fervent defender of economic patriotism. He is also the national president and president of the international branches of Fivmpama, the Malagasy employers’ group, with 5,000 members including 17 professional organizations.
Convinced of the competitiveness of the “vita Malagasy” (made in Madagascar), this visionary focuses mainly on the development of agriculture and the preservation of the environment to promote the rise of Madagascar.
A committed businessman, he created the association “Ho maintso ny tontolo” (For a greener world), a CSR initiative within his company. Indeed, Guanomad, a pioneer in the field of organic farming in Madagascar, intends to conduct its activities in an economically, socially and ecologically responsible manner.
Erick Rajaonary, a member of the Strategic Orientation Council of the Agence universitaire de la francophonie (AUF), has received several awards in recent years recognizing his leadership and the innovative character of his company. In 2013, Guanomad was awarded the “Africa Awards for Entrepreneurship” in the “Outstanding Small and Growing Business” category.
Mr. Rajaonary is the first Malagasy winner of the prize for agricultural innovation at the event “Builders of the African Economy” held on April 28, which represents the largest forum for the consecration of men and women in Africa, organized every year in Abidjan.

Independant Advisor on International Taxation and the Extractive Industries

Readhead, Alexandra

Attendance to TaxCOOP2017: Let’s start planning for the future

Biography:
Alexandra is an independent advisor on international taxation and the extractive industries. Her work is focused on issues of tax avoidance, and other forms of illicit financial flows, by multinational extractive companies in developing countries. She has authored and co-authored a range of policy reports and guidelines, including the first reference book for tax practitioners on transfer pricing in mining; and directly advised numerous developing country tax authorities, Parliamentary Committees, and regional assemblies, on strengthening legal frameworks against abusive transfer pricing in the mining sector. She has worked with a range of international organisations including the Natural Resource Governance Initiative, the German Agency for International Cooperation, the World Bank Group, the Minerals and Energy for Development Alliance, Open Oil, the Intergovernmental Forum on Mining, Metals and Sustainable Development, and the EITI Global Secretariat.
In 2016, Alexandra published the first detailed account of the challenges experienced by African tax authorities in applying transfer pricing rules to the mining sector: ‘Preventing Tax Base Erosion in Africa: a Regional Study of Transfer Pricing Challenges in the Mining Sector.’ The report is accompanied by detailed country case studies for Tanzania, Zambia, Sierra Leone, Guinea, and Ghana; the recommendations continue to inform local advocacy efforts.
Alexandra was previously Governance Advisor to the Chief of Staff to the President of Sierra Leone. In this role, she worked with the Government of Sierra Leone to prioritize and deliver the President’s legacy projects, including getting 500MW of power on the grid, providing free healthcare to pregnant women and children under five, and building roads to connect major cities. Before that Alexandra was a policy adviser to Save the Children UK on maternal and child health, specifically, how to finance health services for vulnerable groups. She has also held leadership roles with local NGOs in Australia and Ethiopia.
Alexandra has a Master of Public Policy (Distinction) from Oxford University, and a Bachelor of Laws (First Class Honours) from Monash University.

Journalist and News Anchor, Radio et télévision suisse

Rochebin, Darius

Attendance to TaxCOOP2017: Keynote speech; How important is tax competition in the policymaking process?

Biography:
Darius Rochebin is the main Anchorman for RTS Geneva, aired world-wide by TV5 Monde, reaching over 55 million viewers. Moreover, each week he is host to a political or cultural personality in his interview show. Vladimir Putin, Emmanuel Macron, Hassan Rohani, Christine Lagarde, Aung San Suu Kyi and Mikhail Gorbatchow have been amongst his guests. He is Chevalier des Arts et des Lettres of the French Republic.

Policy Advisor, International Tax Policy and treaties, Netherlands, Ministry of Finance

Roelofsen, Aart

Attendance to TaxCOOP2017: How important is tax competition in the policymaking process?

Biography:
Aart Roelofsen (born 1957) is a senior international tax policy advisor at the Netherlands Ministry of Finance. He holds a degree in rural sociology from the University of Wageningen and started working with the Netherlands tax authorities as an alternative for military service in 1985. He graduated in fiscal law at the University of Amsterdam and was a tax inspector for the Netherlands Tax and Customs Administration (NTCA) in Amsterdam until 2000 when he moved to the Ministry of Finance in Den Haag. From 2000 to 2007 he was a policy advisor at the Directorate-General for the NTCA, specialized in corporate tax law. In 2007 he continued his career at the International Tax Policy and Legislation Directorate. He is a delegate for the Netherlands to, and co- vice-chair of, OECD’s WP1, to the Forum on Harmful Tax Practices and to the annual meeting of the UN Tax Expert Group. He was a member of several negotiating teams for bilateral tax treaties. Finally, he is one of the BEPS-coordinators in the Ministry of Finance and from that angle, involved in discussions on the Anti-Tax Avoidance Package of the EC.

Professor, Harvard Kennedy School

Rosengard, Jay K.

Attendance to TaxCOOP2018; TaxCOOP2017; TaxCOOP2016: Debate-2018; Debate-2017; Debate-2016; Corporate tax on trial-2015

Biography:
Jay Rosengard, Lecturer in Public Policy at the Harvard Kennedy School, has forty years of international experience designing, implementing, and evaluating development policies in public finance and fiscal strategy, tax and budget reform, municipal finance and management, intergovernmental fiscal relations, banking and financial institutions development, financial inclusion, micro, small, and medium enterprise (MSME) finance, mobile banking, and public administration. He has worked for a wide variety of multilateral and bilateral donors, as well as directly for host governments and private sector clients. Rosengard is Director of the Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business and Government’s Financial Sector Program, which focuses on the development of bank and nonbank financial institutions and alternative financing instruments. This includes microfinance (small-scale lending and local savings mobilization), mainstream commercial banking (general and special-purpose banks), and wholesale financial intermediation (municipal development funds, venture capital funds, pooled financing, secondary mortgage facilities, and securitization). In addition, Rosengard is a Faculty Affiliate of both the Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation and the Center for International Development. At the Ash Center, he is Academic Director of the Rajawali Foundation Institute for Asia and Faculty Chair of the HKS Indonesia Program. He also serves as Faculty Chair of four executive programs: FIPED (Financial Institutions for Private Enterprise Development), which focuses on sustainable and effective MSME finance; ComTax (Comparative Tax Policy and Administration), which addresses key strategic and tactical issues in tax design and implementation; VELP (Vietnam Executive Leadership Program), which is an innovative policy dialogue with senior Vietnamese leadership; and Transformasi (Leadership Transformation in Indonesia), which is designed to assist Indonesia in its decentralization initiatives.

Tax Policy reporter, Wall Street Journal, Washington

Rubin, Richard

Attendance to TaxCOOP2016: How tax transparency could lead to better global tax rules

Biography:
Richard Rubin is the U.S. tax policy reporter for The Wall Street Journal in Washington, focusing on the intersection of taxes, politics and economics. In November he will publish a new book: Dirty Secrets – The Political Economy of Tax Havens. Before joining the Journal in 2015, he covered tax policy for Bloomberg News and Congressional Quarterly. He also wrote about local government and transportation policy for The Charlotte Observer. He is a native of New Jersey and a graduate of Duke University.

Wall Street Journal Journalist

Rubin, Richard

Richard Rubin is the U.S. tax policy reporter for The Wall Street Journal in Washington, focusing on the intersection of taxes, politics and economics. He was the Journal’s lead reporter on the development of the 2017 tax law. Before joining the Journal in 2015, he covered tax policy for Bloomberg News and Congressional Quarterly. He also wrote about local government and transportation policy for The Charlotte Observer. He is a native of New Jersey, a graduate of Duke University and a resident of Washington.

Former Vice-president, Burundi

Rufyikiri, Gervais

Attendance to TaxCOOP2017: The impact of tax competition on MNEs, SMEs, and Individuals

Biography:
Gervais Rufyikiri has a diversified experience both in academic research and the political field. He recently occupied a high political position in the Executive as vice-president of Burundi in charge of the coordination of economic and social ministries (2010-2015). He previously served in the Legislative as President of Senate of Burundi (2005-2010). Thus, during 10 years, he contributed to build post-conflict institutions, to initiate and implement reforms aimed particularly to promote good practices of governance, political stability, and economic growth. Gervais has written many scientific articles reporting his finds in the domain of soil sciences in relation to agricultural activities and pollution by radionuclides, as well as in the domain of politics. In fact, he was involved in researches in the field of agriculture for a doctoral thesis at the Catholic University of Louvain in Belgium (1995-2000), in the field of remediation of environments polluted by radioelements as a post-doctoral researcher at the Belgian Nuclear Research Centre in Belgium (2001-2003), and in the field of governance in Burundi as Scholar in Residence at the University of Antwerp in Belgium (2015-2016). He also lectured at universities in Burundi. Gervais was educated in Burundi and in Belgium. He holds a doctoral degree in Biological, Agricultural and Environmental Engineering at the Catholic University of Louvain in Belgium (1995-2000).

Director, Centre for Tax Policy and Administration, Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD)

Saint Amans, Pascal

Attendance to TaxCOOP2018; TaxCOOP2017; TaxCOOP2016; TaxCOOP2015: Keynote interview-2018; Keynote speech-2017; The OECD’s BEPS project: an exclusive update for TaxCOOP’s audience-2015

Biography:
Pascal Saint-Amans took on his duties as Director of the Center for Tax Policy and Administration at the OECD on 1 February 2012. Mr. Saint-Amans, a French national, joined the OECD in September 2007 as Head of the International Co-operation and Tax Competition Division in the CTPA. He played a key role in the advancement of the OECD tax transparency agenda in the context of the G20. In October 2009 he was appointed Head of the Global Forum Division, created to service the Global Forum on Transparency and Exchange of Information for Tax Purposes, a program with the participation of over 100 countries.

Mr. Saint-Amans graduated from the National School of Administration (ENA) in 1996, and was an official in the French Ministry for Finance for nearly a decade. He held various positions within the Treasury, including heading the supervision of the EU work on direct taxes and overseeing legislation and policy on wealth tax and mergers and spin-offs. He was also the head of tax treaty negotiations and mutual agreement procedures. In this capacity, he participated in the OECD Working Party No. 1 of the Committee on Fiscal Affairs as the delegate for France before being elected Chair of WP1 in 2005. He was also a member of the UN Group of Experts on International Co-operation in Tax Matters, becoming a “rapporteur.

Minster of Finance, France

Sapin, Michel

Attendance to TaxCOOP2016: Tax competition, tax coordination, and tax cooperation in a globalized world

Biography:
Member of the socialist party since 1975, he was elected to the French National Assembly to represent the first district of Indre (1981-1986), then Hauts-de-Seine (1986-1991) and again Indre (2007-2012).
Under the presidency of François Mitterrand, he is Minister Delegate to the Minister of Justice from May 1991 to April 1992, then Minister of the Economy and Finance until March 1993. During the third cohabitation, it is the Minister of Public Service and State Reform March 2000 to May 2002.

Many times the Deputy Mayor of Argenton-sur-Creuse, it is the mayor from 1995 to 2001, from 2002 to 2004 and from 2007 to 2012. He was also president of the Association of the 1998 Centre in 2000, and 2004-2007. From May 2012 to March 2014 he was Minister of Labour, Employment, Vocational Training, and Social Dialogue. On 2 April 2014, he was appointed Minister of Finance and Public Accounts.

Head of Tax Department, German Ministry of Finance

Sell, Michael

Attendance to axCOOP2016: Tax competition, tax coordination, and tax cooperation in a globalized world

Biography:
Michael Sell was born in Mülheim an der Ruhr, Germany. He is married with one daughter. After qualifying as a lawyer, he worked in the tax department of a major German tax consultancy and audit company. In 1993, he joined the public administration, working as a specialist in public service law in the German Federal Ministry of Finance. He moved to the Federal Chancellery in 1998, where he became head of the division responsible for tax policy and later head of directorate. In 2008, he switched to the Federal Financial Supervisory Authority, where he held the position of executive director for horizontal tasks and internal administration. Since May 2012, Sell has been head of the Taxation Directorate-General at the Federal Ministry of Finance in Berlin.

Director of the Tax Advisory MEF, Uruguay

Serra Semiglia, Fernando

Attendance to TaxCOOP2016: To broaden the overall tax base: to tax for the promotion of public goods, the tax on tobacco-2016

Managing Editor, International Tax Review

Shaheen, Salman

Attendance to TaxCOOP2017.

Contributing Editor, Tax Notes. Global Tax 50

Sheppard, Lee

Attendance to TaxCOOP2015: Get inspired and moving with some help from opinion leaders who have made a true difference

Biography:
Named on the Global Tax 50 most influential players in international taxation by International Tax Review.
Lee Sheppard is one of the most widely read and respected tax commentators in the world. She has been a mainstay of Tax Analysts’ publications for 30 years. Trained as a lawyer, Sheppard specializes in cutting-edge financial issues, such as derivatives and hedge funds, and taxation of multinational corporations. She is frequently asked to speak on tax subjects. She has appeared on television shows such as 60 Minutes and Frontline, as well as in the documentary We’re Not Broke. She also writes a blog for Forbes.
Tax Analysts, the publisher of Tax Notes and related publications, is a nonprofit publisher that provides the latest and most in-depth tax information worldwide. www.taxanalysts.com.

Tax Attorney and Consultant, Independant Commission for International Corporate Taxation Reform

Siu, Erika Dayle

Attendance to TaxCOOP2016: Tax Competition: are we at war? A historical review

Biography:
Erika Dayle Siu is a Tax Attorney and Tax and Development, Consultant. Erika has worked for the United Nations, the International Centre for Taxation and Development, Oxfam and currently directs the Secretariat for the Independent Commission for the Reform of International Corporate Taxation. Her research with the UN Tax Committee focused on proposing recommendations for the UN Model Convention on the taxation of profits from emissions trading. At the UN Office for South-South Cooperation, Erika worked on a project to exchange successful tax practices among developing country tax administrations and facilitate technical cooperation partnerships through South-South cooperation. Erika is a graduate of New York University Law School’s Graduate Tax Program and a member of the New York and New Jersey Bar.

Senior Chief, Tax Legislation Division, Tax Policy Branch, Department of Finance, Canada

Smith, Stephanie

Attendance to TaxCOOP2017: How important is tax competition in the policymaking process?

Biography:
Stephanie is Senior Chief of the Tax Treaties Section, Tax Legislation Division, Tax Policy Branch at the Department of Finance, a post she has held since September 2014. She is Canada’s lead negotiator for tax treaties and tax information exchange agreements.
Stephanie is the Canadian delegate to the OECD’s Working Party on Tax Treaties, the Global Forum on Transparency and Exchange of Information for Tax Purposes, and a member of the United Nations Committee of Experts on International Cooperation in Tax Matters.
Prior to re-joining the Canadian government in September 2014, Stephanie worked for 3 years at the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) in Paris as Head of the International Co-operation Unit in the Centre for Tax Policy and Administration.
Stephanie has a BA from Bishop’s University, an LLB from Queen’s University and was called to the Ontario Bar in 1998.

Tax Partner, Richter

St-Pierre, Natalie

Attendance to TaxCOOP2015: Competing when your competitors don’t pay taxes. Insiders’views and solutions

Bibliography:
Natalie St-Pierre stands out due to her practical approach and understanding of corporate tax issues. Natalie is a seasoned tax partner with more than 20 years of experience, who has specialized, practical knowledge of commodity tax matters. Before joining the firm, she was a Senior Director with Bell Canada, where she built the largest Canadian commodity tax practice in the country, ensuring that commodity tax matters were well integrated into the organization’s business processes.
Natalie is a partner in the firm’s Tax Division. She develops and implements strategies that will allow her clients to achieve significant tax savings, thereby ensuring the effective handling of complex tax matters.
In addition to being extremely knowledgeable regarding commodity tax issues, she stands out due to her extensive knowledge of business process improvements allowing for the effective management of tax compliance and her strong relationships within the tax community, in particular with the tax authorities. Furthermore, she is a founding member of the Association de médiation fiscale, created in February 2014.

Founder and President, Globethics.net

Stuecklberger, Christoph

Attendance to TaxCOOP2017: Forum for the future

Biography:
Christoph Stückelberger (born 1951) is Founder, was Executive Director (2008-2016) and is President (since July 2016) of the global network on ethics “Globethics.net Foundation”, based in Geneva/Switzerland and with ten offices on four continents. He is Executive Director of Geneva Agape Foundation in Geneva, mainly with partners in China. He is Prof. (em.) at the University of Basel, Distinguished Professor at the Technical University MEPhI in Moscow, Visiting Professor at GOU University in Enugu/Nigeria and at Kingdom Business College in Beijing/China. He got his doctor honoris causa (Dr. h.c.) from the UPC University in Kinshasa/DR Congo for his long-term engagement in Africa.

His main fields of research are economic/business ethics, trade ethics, finance ethics incl. tax ethics, political ethics, development ethics, environmental ethics and philanthropy. He published as author and editor many books and hundreds of articles on applied ethics, among others “Ethics in Higher Education” (eds. With Divya Singh, 2016), “Responsible Leadership” and four volumes “Global Ethics Applied”

He was Director of the Swiss Development Organisation “Bread for all” (14 years); Director of the Institute for Theology and Ethics of the Federation of Swiss Protestant Churches (4 Years); Editor-in- chief of a large Magazine (8 Years); Founder and President of Transparency International Switzerland; Member of the Commission for International Cooperation of the Swiss Government (14 years) and President of its sub-commission on WTO for several years; Member of the Swiss Ethics Committee on Non-human Biotechnology of the Swiss Government (9 years); Member and President of the Council of the Swiss Import Promotion Programme SIPPO to support imports from developing countries; President of the international microfinance institution ECLOF working in 30 developing countries (9 years); Founding President of the Swiss Association Church and Environment OeKU; member and consultant of various ethics committees of very large and small Banks (international, Switzerland, Germany, China) and a Sovereign Wealth Fund; consultant of international companies; member of Boards of academic Ethics Centers.

Commissioner General, Revenue Authority, Liberia

Tamba, Elfrieda

Attendance to TaxCOOP2017

Biograpphy:
Elfrieda Tamba is Commissioner General at the Liberia Revenue Authority. Previously, she was Deputy Minister of Revenue at the liberian Ministry of Finance and Chief Financial Officer for the Liberia Bank for Development and Investment. She holds a Master of Business Administration in Finance from the Morgan State University.

Fiscal Affairs Expert and author of "Taxation in an Integrating World" (1995)

Tanzi, Vito

Attendance to TaxCOOP2016: Tax Competition: are we at war? A historical review

Biography:
Vito Tanzi received MA (1963) and Ph.D. (1967) in Economics from Harvard University.

After an initial career teaching economics, at the Goerge Washington University and at the American University (where he was Department Chair in 1970-73), he became Head of the Tax Policy Division (1974-1980) and Director of the Fiscal Affairs Department at the IMF (1981-2000).

From 2001 to 2003 he was Undersecretary for Economy and Finance in the Italian Government. He has been a consultant for many international organizations, most recently for the UN.

In recent years, he has continued his professional activity as an independent scholar.

He is the author of 20 books and hundreds of articles in economic journals, some in top journals, such as the American Economic Review, the Journal of Political Economy, The Review of Economics and Statistics, the Journal of Public Economics, and others. An economics effect “the Tanzi effect” was named after him.

Director of the Tax Histoy Project at Tax Analysts and Contributing Editor for Tax Notes magazine.

Thorndike, Joe

Attendance to TaxCOOP2016: How to tax wealth more efficiently? Other tax instruments

Biography:
Joseph J. Thorndike, director of the Tax History Project at Tax Analysts, is a nationally recognized tax historian. He is a regular columnist for Tax Analysts’ publications, including Tax Notes magazine, and a writer for the Tax Analysts blog. Thorndike also has written for a number of national publications and academic journals. A prolific author on the history of American taxation, Thorndike’s latest book is Their Fair Share: Taxing the Rich in the Age of FDR, published by the Urban Institute Press. Thorndike serves as a visiting scholar in history at the University of Virginia and teaches tax policy at the Northwestern University School of Law. He holds a BA from Williams College and an MA and Ph.D. from the University of Virginia.

Professor, HEC Montreal

Vidal, Jean-Pierre

Attendance to TaxCOOP2015: It’s legal, but is it moral? Tax morality and its limits

Biography:
Jean-Pierre Vidal teaches taxation at HEC Montreal since June 2002. He is a member of the Ordre des comptables professionnels agréés du Québec. He was a “Licensed Certified Public Accountant” in the State of Illinois, USA, from November 27, 2006 to September 30, 2012. On that date, the status of its license in the United States has become inactive at his request. He followed the ICCA course on extensive tax CICA from 1997 to 1999. He earned a Ph.D. in economics from the University of Montreal in 1990; an M.Sc. in Economics from the University of Montreal in 1985; a Diploma from the Institute of Political Studies in Paris in 1981; and a Bachelor of Business Administration (Finance) from the University of Sherbrooke in 1979.

Tax Partner, Tax Policy Leader EMEA PWC

Visser, Edwin

Attendance to TaxCOOP2017: Let’s start planning for the future-2017

Biography:
Tax partner at PwC the Netherlands as of January 1, 2015. Tax policy leader EMEA, member of the global tax policy core team, leader of PwC’s tax controversy and dispute resolution network for the EMEA region, and member of the global leadership team of PwC’s Tax Controversy and Dispute Resolution (TCDR) network. His basis is in the AEX-team in Amsterdam. Edwin’s practice includes representing PwC in tax policy matters (e.g. with the EU institutions), boardroom consulting, strategic tax advice, tax controversy, tax administration consulting.

Edwin is co-leading a global PwC team of around 20 former competent authorities and other specialists in mutual agreement procedures and arbitration.

Edwin graduated from Tilburg University in 1995. He’s a member of the Editorial board of a renowned tax encyclopedia in the Netherlands, author of a handbook on transfer pricing (published in 2005), co-author of the Netherlands report to the IFA in 2007 on the Treatment of intangibles. He has a broad experience in teaching (LLM International Taxation at Leiden University, IBFD and the Tax assurance academy at Nyenrode Business University)

Before joining PwC he was deputy director-general for Tax and Customs Policy and Legislation and Director for Direct Taxes at the Dutch Ministry of Finance. He represented the Netherlands in the Bureau of the OECD’s Committee on Fiscal Affairs from 2012 through 2014 and he co-chaired the OECD Informal task force on tax and development (2010-2014).

Edwin was director for International Tax Policy and Legislation from January 1, 2009, to March 1, 2012. In that capacity he also acted as competent authority. From 2004 through 2008 he was responsible for a coordinated treatment of the 2000 largest companies in the Netherlands by the Netherlands’ Tax and Customs Administration (NTCA). The main challenge was the implementation of the co-operative compliance approach. From 2000 to 2004 he was head of the Transfer pricing division of the Dutch tax administration and in that capacity, he was involved in many mutual agreement procedures.

Vice Presdent, Equitable growth of Finance and Institutions (EFI)

Waldie, Paul

Attendance to TaxCOOP2015: From global to local competition: when tax competition hits close to home

Biography:
Paul Waldie joined the Globe in 1995 and has covered business, sports, news and just about everything in between. He has won three National Newspaper Awards, in the business category, has been nominated in the breaking news and explanatory categories, and has also been nominated for a Michener Award. He has traveled the world for The Globe, covering the earthquake in Haiti, the Olympics in London, Vancouver and Sochi, the first season of the Winnipeg Jets, the Bre-X scandal, the Conrad Black saga and the collapse of Lehman Brothers. He wrote a best-selling book on the McCain family and won an award for magazine writing. Paul was most recently the Globe’s European Bureau Chief, where he covered a range of stories from the birth of the royal baby to the crisis in Ukraine. In April he was named Editor of the Report on Business.

Vice President, Equitable growth of Finance and Institutions (EFI)

Walliser, Jan

Attendance to TaxCOOP2016: Opening speech

Biography:
Jan Walliser was the Vice President for the World Bank’s Global Practices covering Finance, Competitiveness, & Innovation; Governance; Macroeconomics, Trade, & Investment; and Poverty and Equity from July 1, 2015, until his passing in June 2018. In this role, Jan was responsible for ensuring high-quality lending, analytical and advisory services aligned with country demand and in collaboration with regional teams. Prior to this appointment, he was Director of Strategy and Operations in the Bank’s Africa Region supporting the Regional Vice President in providing strategic leadership and operational guidance to staff working on 48 countries in sub-Saharan Africa as lending to the region increased to more than $10 billion annually. Previously, he managed a team of economists working on Nigeria and countries in central and western Africa, which advised governments on macroeconomic policies and supported debt relief for several fragile states. He also provided advice to staff and senior management on issues related to budget support, aid effectiveness and conditionality in one of the World Bank’s central units during 2004-08. Before joining the World Bank in 2002, Jan was an economist at the International Monetary Fund and a Principal Analyst at the U.S. Congressional Budget Office where he focused on the analysis of pension reform and tax reform. Jan published in a range of professional economic journals on intergenerational aspects of fiscal policy, tax reform, pension reform, and aid effectiveness. He received a Ph.D. in economics from Boston University in 1998 and a Diplom-Volkswirt degree from Kiel University, Germany, in 1993. He spoke German, English, and French.

Child tax prodigy

Weinreb, Carlie

Attendance to TaxCOOP2018 et TaxCOOP2017: Rising Star cocktail-2018; Forum for the future-2017

Biography:
With her first lecture at 6 years old at one of the largest tax firms worldwide Carlie has since brought her knowledge to the University of Toronto, University of Western Ontario, CPA conference and more.

She has more than half a million views on Social media. Carlie has appeared on numerous media outlets such as CBS, Fox, CBC, and NBC including the Steve Harvey Show and Bloomberg News.

Carlie has written articles for numerous organizations including the Government of Canada’s Federal Consumer Agency. Carlie is the CEO of a storefront math location she recently launched.

Senior Director, Governance VP

Wetzel, Deborah

Attendance to TaxCOOP2016

Biography:
Deborah Wetzel is the World Bank Director for Regional Integration for Africa, the Middle East, and Northern Africa. Prior to her current appointment, Wetzel was the Senior Director for Governance from April 2016 to April 2019. She also served as the Director of Strategy and Operations for the Middle East and North Africa Region, as well as Country Director for Brazil, from March 2012 until July 2015. Previous roles include World Bank Group’s Chief of Staff to the World Bank President from 2010 to 2012, and Director for Governance and Public Sector, where she directed the Bank’s work on taxation, public expenditures, decentralization, public sector reform and strengthening, governance and anti-corruption. From 2006 to 2009, she led the World Bank’s Economic and Public Sector Programs in Brazil, based in Brasilia. During that period, she developed numerous programs with state and federal governments to help improve the effectiveness of public expenditures and achieve better results. Wetzel began her career at the World Bank in 1986 as a Consultant, joining the Young Professionals Program in 1993. She also worked at the Centre for the Study of African Economies in Oxford England in the early 1990s. During her career, she has worked in Central and Eastern Europe, Ghana, Hungary, Ukraine, Vietnam, Russia, the former Soviet Republics, West Africa, and Zambia. Wetzel has a Doctorate in Economics from the University of Oxford and a Masters in International Studies from Johns Hopkins University, School of Advanced International Studies. Her BA is from Smith College. She is the author of publications on fiscal decentralization, public finance, governance, and sub-national affairs.

Tax professor at the University of International Business and Economics in Beijing; Tax consultant, World Health Organization; Director, WHO Collaborating Center for Tobacco and Economics in Beijing

Zheng, Rong

Attendance to TaxCOOP2016: To broaden the overall tax base: to tax for the promotion of public goods, the tax on tobacco

Biography:
Prof. Zheng is a tax professor at the University of International Business and Economics in Beijing. She also works for World Health Organization as a tax consultant and she is the director of the WHO Collaborating Center for Tobacco and Economics in Beijing. Her areas of expertise include Chinese fiscal and tax policy as well as tobacco economy. She has a strong commitment to health improvement and contributed directly to the Chinese tobacco tax reforms in 2009 and 2015 through a number of research projects in collaboration with the Chinese Ministry of Finance and the World Health Organization. In addition to her research and teaching activities, she devotes herself to policy advocacy through training of various administrations, organization of seminars /conferences, and regular interviews with the medias.

Michael H.Schill Distinguished Professor of Law, UCLA School of Law

Zolt, Eric M.

Attendance to TaxCOOP2016:
How to tax wealth more efficiently? Other tax instruments- 2016

Biography:
Eric M. Zolt is a Michael H. Schill Distinguished Professor of Law at the UCLA School of Law. He specializes in individual,corporate, and international tax law. Working with the International Monetary Fund, the World Bank, US AID and the US Treasury Department, Eric has served as a consultant on tax policy matters in over 30
countries. Before coming to UCLA, he was a partner in the Chicago law firm of Kirkland & Ellis. Eric served in the US Department of Treasury, first as Deputy Tax Legislative Counsel and then as founder and director of Treasury’s Tax Advisory Program in Eastern Europe and the Former Soviet Union. Eric also served as the Director of the International Tax Program at Harvard Law School. He is a co-founder of the African Tax Institute, a training and research institute for government tax officials in Africa.

Associate Professor of economics, UC Berkeley and author

Zucman, Gabriel

Biography:
Gabriel Zucman, born in Paris in 1986, is an associate professor of economics at the University of California, Berkeley.

He is the author of articles published in peer-reviewed journals such as the Quarterly Journal of Economics, the American Economic Review, the Journal of Public Economics, and of three books. His research focuses on the accumulation, distribution, and taxation of global wealth and has renewed the analysis of the macro-distributional implications of globalization.

In a series of papers and in his book The Hidden Wealth of Nations, he has developed new methods to measure the wealth held in tax havens. This research finds that 8% of the world’s household financial wealth is held in tax havens, with large variation across countries—from a few percents in Scandinavia to 50% in Russia. Data leaked from offshore financial institutions (such as the “Panama Papers”) reveal that offshore wealth is very concentrated, with about 50% of it belonging to the top 0.01% wealthiest households.

A second strand of research combines theory and empirics to quantify the redistributive effects of international tax competition. The findings suggest that 40% of multinational corporate profits are shifted to tax havens globally and as much as 60% for US multinationals. This profit shifting has large redistributive implications across countries and social groups. Granular results of this research, available at MissingProfits.world, make it possible to assess the effect of alternative tax policies, such as global tax coordination or unilateral changes to the taxation of multinational companies (e.g., the use of apportionment formulas).

Gabriel Zucman has pioneered the creation of distributional national accounts, statistics that decompose macroeconomic growth by social group. With Emmanuel Saez, he has constructed long-run series on the distribution of US wealth which have received attention in the US public debate. With Thomas Piketty he has studied inequality in China, Russia, and the long-run accumulation of capital in rich countries as far back as 1700.

Gabriel Zucman received his PhD in 2013 from the Paris School of Economics and taught at the London School of Economics before joining the Berkeley faculty in 2015.

In 2019, he was awarded the Bernácer Prize and a Sloan Research Fellowship. He received the Excellence Award in Global Economic Affairs from the Kiel Institute for the World Economy in 2017, and the Best Young French Economist Prize awarded by Le Monde and le Cercle des Économistes in 2018.