| Jeffrey OwensDirector of the WU Global Tax Policy Center (WU GTPC) at the Institute for Austrian and International Tax Law WU (Vienna University of Economics and Business) Vienna, AustriaFor over 20 years, Jeffrey led the OECD tax work, and now he is the Director of the WU Global Tax Policy Center (WU GTPC) at the Institute for Austrian and International TaxLaw, Vienna University of Economics and Business (Wirtschaftsuniversität Wien, WU). He 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 as well as being involved with a number of NGOs. |
| Eva Andrés AucejoProfessor of Financial and Tax Law. University of Barcelona. Extraordinary award guión both Ph.D. in Law and guión Law Degree. Economic Sciences and Business Degree. Researcher and consultant of the Global Forum on Law, Justice and Development of the World Bank. Director of the Education and Law Review (WoS JCR & SCOPUS). Director of the Excellence Network INTAXCOOP&GOV: “The Global Observatory on Tax Agencies”. Visiting researcher at Harvard University, European University Institute, Università ‘La Sapienza’, Università di Firenze, International Bureau of Fiscal Documentation, Universita di Bologna, London School of Economics and Political Science, Leeds University (UK), Georgetown University (Washington, DC), World Bank (Washington, DC). |
| Marco NicoliSenior Knowledge Management Officer from the World Bank (former). Legal Vice Presidency of the World Bank. Special officer of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) |
| Julius SenFormerly Associate Director and Senior Programme Manager at LSE Enterprise and LSE IDDEAS, is an LSE Expert on regulation, governance, trade and public policy, and a member of the International Trade Policy Unit (ITPU) at the LSE. He also teaches extensively on executive education programmes for governments and the private sector. |
| Andreu Olesti-RayoProfessor of Public International Law at the University of Barcelona. His main field of specialization is in European Union Law. Bachelor and Ph. D. in Law (1991). Bachelor in Economics (1986) and in Law (1985). He is currently the Director of Department of Criminal Law and Criminal Science, and Public International Law and International Relations at the University of Barcelona. Director of PROJECT: EUROFUTURUM – PGC1028-094489-B100 and the Consolidated Group: DIDUE- 2017 SGR1371. |
| Juan Lopez RodríguezPh D in law, expert in tax law and policy, in its regional, national, international and European aspects, with more than 25 years of experience in bodies in charge of fiscal and tax policies (Economic and Finance Ministry of the Spanish Government and of the Commission Services). Tax Policy Adviser at European Commission. |
| João Félix Pinto NogueiraPhD in Tax Law. Deputy Academic Chairman of IBFD. Manager of IBFD Academic and Deputy Editor-in-Chief of the World Tax Journal and of the International Tax Studies. Honorary associate professor of the University of Cape Town, South Africa. Prior to joining IBFD, he was a (visiting) post-doctoral researcher and lecturer at several universities and a lawyer at one of the most highly reputed tax law firms in Portugal. |
| Teresa Soler RochEmeritus Professor of Financial and Tax Law (University of Alicante). President of the Spanish Taxpayers defence Council (2008-2012). Member of IFA (Spanish Branch), ILADT, AEDAF, Board of Trustees member of IBFD (2003-2020). Expert of Spanish Minister committees to reform tax laws. President of the “Revista Española de Derecho Financiero”. Editorial committees’ member of the Journals CT, QF, NF, etc. Visiting researcher at University of Florida, Université Paris II. |
| Franco ROCCATAGLIATACurrently principal administrator in DG TAXUD. Delegate of the EU Commission in various international tax committees (OECD-CFA, UN-DESA). Legal advisor at the International Department of the Italian Ministry of Finance (1984-1994) and as a tax inspector in local tax offices (1978-1984). |
| Piergiorgio ValenteConfédération Fiscale Européenne (CFE) Tax Advisers Europe (President), IAFEI Chairman Technical Committee, Professor Link Campus University (Crowe Valente/Valente Associati GEB Partners). |
| Monica Calijuri SionaraMonica Calijuri (PhD in Accounting, Sao Paulo University, and a B.A. in Economics). Lead Sector Specialist in tax administration at the InterAmerican Development Bank (IADB). She specializes in modernizing tax administration in Latin American and Caribbean (LAC) countries through capacity building and digitalization. Previously, she worked for the Brazilian Tax Administration and the IMF. |
| Dr. Alessandro TurinaAlessandro Turina is a Senior Research Associate in the IBFD Academic Department, where he focuses on international and European tax law and where he serves as managing editor of the “International Tax Studies” publication and Transparency Module coordinator within the University of Amsterdam - IBFD International Tax LLM. He is also a visiting lecturer at the University of Fribourg. |
| William ByrnesExecutive Professor of Texas A&M University School of Law as well as an Affiliated Faculty member of the Texas A&M University Energy Institute and a Research Affiliate of the Texas A&M University Institute of Data Sciences. He is a legal treatise author of Practical Guide to U.S. Transfer Pricing (4th Edition) and Taxation of Intellectual Property and Technology, both published annually by Matthew Bender. William Byrnes is the author and co-author of over 1,100 articles published by financial media. |
| Cristina García-Herrera BlancoAssociate professor of financial and tax law at Universidad Complutense de Madrid. Since 2017 she is Director of Research and Studies in the Institute for Fiscal Studies (Spanish Ministry of Finance). She is been member of several financial ministry commissions of experts and working groups: the technical committee in the Spending Review in the AIReF Tax Benefits Assessment project (2019-2020), Working group on tax conflicts (Spanish Tax Agency), Working Group of Offsetinf of tax loss carryforwards, (State Secretary for Finance, 2019), Working Group on Taxation of Wealth (Institute for Fiscal Studies, 2019), Working group on taxation and gender (Institute for Fiscal Studies, 2018), Committee of Experts in the tax regimen of professional companies (Institute for Fiscal Studies, 2013), Committee of Experts on the determination of the tax base of entrepeneurs, (Institute for Fiscal Studies, 2013), Working Group to make observations on the Green Book on the Future of VAT, observations sent to the European Commission (2010). She is Executive Editor of the Journal Crónica Tributaria. Nueva Época. Etc. |
| David Deputy• Director of Strategic Development, Vertex, Inc.• President Accounting Blockchain Coalition• Adjunct professor, Texas A&M Law School |
| Juan José Hinojosa TorralvoFull Professor of Financial and Tax Law. University of Malaga. SpainDean of the Faculty of Law of the University of Málaga. Spain. |
| Amparo Grau RuizProfessor of Tax Law. Complutense University of Madrid.Full Professor of Financial and Tax Law. Complutense University of Madrid. Principal investigator of Certificarse Project: Efectos jurídico-financieros y control del impacto social para el desarrollo sostenible: el papel de las certificaciones en las inversiones y la contratación pública (DER2015-65374-R). PI AudIT-S Project (PID2019-105959RB-I00). PI UCM - H2020 INBOTS Project (GA No. 780073) |
| Katerina PerrouPost-doctoral Researcher and Assistant Lecturer in Tax Law at the Law School of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens. Visiting Professor at Queen Mary University of London, UK and at the University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands. General Secretary of the Greek IFA Branch. Currently, she serves as Legal Counsel to the Governor of the Greek Independent Authority for Public Revenue. |
| Jesús Ramos PrietoFull professor of Financial and Tax Law at the Pablo de Olavide University of Seville, of whose Department of Public Law he has been Director (2012-2020). He has been Vice Dean of the Faculty of Law and General Director for the European Higher Education Area at said University. Author of numerous publications and contributions to national and international congresses, conferences and seminars, he has been a member of various research projects and is a member of the European School of Advanced Tax Studies of Bologna, of the Spanish Association of Tax Advisors, of the Spanish Association of Financial Law and of the Network of Professors of the discipline. He has made stays at the Universities of Strasbourg, Bologna and Paris-Est Créteil. |
| María Cruz Barreiro CarrilAssociate Professor of Tax Law at the University of Vigo (Spain), where she obtained her doctoral degree with the mention of European Doctor. Ph.D. award by Vigo University and Thesis Award by the Institute of Fiscal Studies (Spanish Ministry of the Economy). Visiting researcher at IBFD, the WU Vienna University of Economics and Business, the Max Planck Institute for Tax Law and Public Finance and the NYU. |
| Alessandro ValenteManager of tax and legal matters at Crowe Valente/Valente Associati GEB Partners. Alessandro advises multinational clients on local and international tax and legal matters. He also advises on TP matters such as group planning, defence, documentation, benchmarking analysis, unilateral APA, bilateral APA, as well as on legal tech matters. Alessandro holds degrees from the University of East Anglia, the University of Miami and the University of Campania “Luigi Vanvitelli”. He is a member of the Tax Technology committee – CFE Tax Advisers Europe, and serves as the Co-chair of the Ethics and Sustainable Development group and is a member of the Digitalised Economy group of the International CFOs Association. He is also a regular contributor to specialised publications in the field of tax and TP both in Italy and abroad. |
| José Miguel Martínez-Carrasco PignatelliProfessor of Financial and Tax Law area of knowledge. Autonomus University of Barcelona. Author of almost a hundred publications in his discipline including books (four monographs), book chapters, articles and reviews. For fifteen years he has been a tax attorney. He has been a substitute magistrate of the Superior Court of Justice of Catalonia. |
| Jorge MarcelinoDoctor (summa cum laude) in Law and Political Sciences at Barcelona University; Invited researcher at Centre d’études sur la fiscalité des entreprises, in Paris; invited researcher at IFA and invited researcher at IBFD. Invited professor of the master program on International Taxation in Latin America (Master II - Fiscalité Internationale) at the University Paris II; Attorney specialist in Wealth Planning, Offshore Centers Structures and Foreign Direct Investment. |
| Mario PiresMaster in Taxation Open University of Catalonia (UOC).Senior Consultant Kreston Iberaudit - Taxation - Transfer Prices.Tutor of the Inter-American Center of Tax Administrations (CIAT). |
| Nathan GothsPhD candidate in international tax law at the University of Barcelona (Director: Eva Andrés). He is also a Tax Accountant and Advisor in Spain and Belgium, his country of origin. He specializes in the matters of international taxation and asset mobility such as taxation of non-residents, fiscal immigration and expatriation, international succession and tax optimization. |
