TEAM

Alepin, Brigitte
Director of the movie Fast and Dangerous: A Race to the Bottom, tax expert, author, professor of accounting at the Université du Québec en Outaouais (UQO), cofounder of TaxCOOP.

Latulippe, Lyne
Research Chair in Taxation and Public Finance, Sherbrooke University

Otis, Louise
International administrative judge and arbitrator, Adjunct Professor, McGill University

Christian Bellavance
Editor in chief, TaxCOOP In Action!

Paula Henriquez-Karmis
Coordinator and project Manager

Director of the movie Fast and Dangerous: A Race to the Bottom, tax expert, author, professor of accounting at the Université du Québec en Outaouais (UQO), cofounder of TaxCOOP.

Alepin, Brigitte

Brigitte Alepin is a Canadian businesswoman, a Harvard-trained tax specialist and tax policy advisor, and a professor in taxation at the École des Sciences de la Gestion at Université du Québec à Montréal. She has led several major reports and projects for various 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 on tax policies and public finances. She acts as a special advisor to politicians and political parties and 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 [The Wealthy Who Do Not Pay Tax] and La crise fiscale qui vient [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.

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

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.

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.

Editor in chief, TaxCOOP In Action!

Christian Bellavance

Christian Bellavance has worked more than 35 years as a journalist for the daily newspapers La Tribune and Le Devoir, the magazines PME and CAmagazine, and furthermore for radio and television on Radio-Canada. In addition, he has been Vice-President, Research and Communications, at Financial Executives International Canada (FEI Canada), where he also headed the research foundation. He is the author of the biography Bernard Lemaire – Ma vie en Cascades, published by Québec-Amérique.

Change Management Expert, Founder of DOT (Dare Other Things)

Marie-Josée Caya, MBA

Consultant

Samuel Murray

Consultant, Partner, Republik

Jean-Philippe Shoiry

JP is Chief of Strategy and partner at Republik, a digital agency at the crossroads of creativity, data & sustainability in business.

With a Bachelor’s Degree in Law and a Masters in Taxation from Sherbrooke University, the former quarterback is not your typical Content Strategist. His background and sharp mind mean your business objectives are always the center of his attention.

Under Jean-Philippe’s leadership, Republik has recently won numerous awards in creative, strategy & digital while becoming the 1st Quebec based agency to obtain B-Corp certification, awarded globally to businesses with a higher sense of purpose. His forward-thinking vision of the industry had him mentioned in Infopresse’s “Top 30 under 30” in 2015.

He is an active board member for Pour3Points and Montreal’s Museum of Contemporary Arts. Over the past 10 years, his creative approach to content-driven fundraising has helped raised more than 4M for the causes he was involved in.

About Republik

Republik is a brand editorial agency, specialized in content & influencer marketing. With full-service capabilities across owned, earned & paid media, the agency develops innovative content strategies that leverage the power of storytelling to reach, convert & create loyalty with your audience. Some of its most notable clients include St-Hubert, Veuve Clicquot, Hennessy, Blakes, Lassonde, Agropur and Prével.

Coordinator and project Manager

Paula Henriquez-Karmis

Project Manager

Yanis Driai

Francis Driai is a Master’s Student in Management Sciences with a specialization in Marketing at ESG-UQÀM

Project Manager

Gabriella Sobodker

Gabriella Sobodker is a Master of Law student, Taxation option (LL. M.) at HEC Montréal

program committee 2020

Dietsch, Peter
Associate Professor at the Université de Montréal

Eclassan, Marie-Christine
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

Lareau, André
Associate professor, Law faculty, Université Laval

Director of the movie Fast and Dangerous: A Race to the Bottom, tax expert, author, professor of accounting at the Université du Québec en Outaouais (UQO), cofounder of TaxCOOP.

Alepin, Brigitte

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).

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.

Associate professor, Law faculty, Université Laval

Lareau, André

Andre Lareau has been a professor of tax law at the Law faculty at Université Laval since 1982. He was also dean of this faculty from 2005 to 2007. He is particularly interested in international taxation and tax policy.