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Brian Arnold

Brian J. Arnold is with Goodmans LLP, Toronto, and lectured in tax law at a Canadian law school for 28 years. A graduate of Harvard Law School (J.D., 1969), he is also a consultant to the Canada Customs and Revenue Agency, the Canadian Departments of Finance and Justice, and the Office of the Auditor General, the OECD, and the Australian Taxation Office. He is the author of several books and numerous articles on taxation and is the Canadian representative on the Permanent Scientific Committee of the International Fiscal Association (IFA).

 

 

Michel Aujean

Graduated with an Economics degree and Masters degree (DES) from the Faculty of Law and Economics, Paris in 1970. After teaching Economics at the University of Pau in France, he joined the Directorate-General for Economic and Financial Affairs in the European Commission in 1976. Appointed as Head of Unit for VAT to the Directorate General for Customs and Indirect Taxation in 1988, he took responsibility for drafting and negotiating the EU transitional VAT regime. In 1994, Michel became Director of Indirect Taxation. In 1998 he became Director of Tax Policy to the Directorate General Taxation and Customs Union. Michel was then responsible for the "Tax package" initiative that includes Code of Conduct on Harmful Tax Competition and Savings directive. In 2004, Michel took responsibility for the "Analyses and Tax Policies" Directorate, which deals with general tax policy initiatives and specifically with direct tax matters (company and personal income tax) and also includes application of EU law and infringements. He was notably in charge of preparing the proposals for a Common Consolidated Corporate Tax Base and in 2006 he also promoted a new EU initiative on Coordination of tax systems within the EU. Michel is a member of the Permanent Scientific Committee of the IFA, has given tax law courses as visiting professor in the United States, France, Italy, and Austria, and has spoken at many international conferences.. Michel has published numerous articles on economics and taxation. In November 2007 he retired from the EU Commission and from 2008 he joined Taj - Société d'avocats - Member of Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu as Partner-in-charge of Taj's Corporate Taxation Think Tank.

 
John F. Avery Jones
John F. Avery Jones

Born in 1940 and graduated from Cambridge University. He is a Special Commissioner of Income Tax (the first appeal tribunal for serious cases) and a Chairman of VAT and Duties Tribunals. He was Chairman of the British Branch of the IFA, as well as member and Vice-president of the IFA Executive Committee, and is a past Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the IBFD (International Bureau of Fiscal Documentation) in Amsterdam, and was a Visiting Professor at the London School of Economics. He is consulting editor of the journal "British Tax Review", a member (and past chairman) of the Tax Law Review Committee, and a member of the steering committee of the UK Tax Law Rewrite.

 

 

Reuven Avi-Yonah

Graduated summa cum laude from the Hebrew University in 1983. In 1986, he received a PhD in History from Harvard University, followed by a JD magna cum laude from Harvard Law School in 1989. He is Irwin I. Cohn Professor of Law at the University of Michigan Law School and director of the International Tax LL.M. Program at this University. He has served as a consultant to the US Treasury and the OECD on tax competition issues, and has been a member of the Executive Committee of the New York State Bar Association Tax Section, as well as of the US Income Advisory Board. Since 2008 he is a fellow of the American Bar Foundation, since 2007 senior fellow at the Taxation Law and Policy Research Institute at Monash University. Since 2005 he is member of the steering group of the OECD International Network for Tax Research. He is the author of several books and numerous articles.

 
Robert Baconnier
Robert Baconnier

Graduate of the Department of Political Sciences in Paris and of l'Ecole Nationale d'Administration. From 1979 to 1983 he was Deputy Director of the international division of the Tax Legislation Department, and until 1986 head of the Litigation Department in the Taxation directorate. From 1986 to 1989 he was Head of the Inland Revenue, and Paymaster General until 1991. Since 1991, M. Baconnier has been Chairman of the management board of Bureau Francis Lefebvre. He is now the Chairman of Association Nationale des Sociétés par Actions, a professional association representing the issuers of securities on the financial markets.
 

 
 

 

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