Philip Baker

Since 1998, visiting professorial fellow at the Centre for Commercial Law Studies, Queen Mary, London University and joint head of the School of Tax Law. Since 1987, barrister, Grays Inn Tax Chambers, specializing in Revenue Law. He is a member of the UK Branch of the International Fiscal Association (IFA), and of the International Tax Sub-Committee, Law Society of England and Wales as well as of the Chartered Institute of Taxation, Education Committee and International Taxation Sub-Committee

 

 

Yariv Brauner

Born in Israel in 1969. Graduated from the Hebrew University, and earned an LL.M. (in international taxation) and a J.S.D. from New York University. He is an Associate Professor of Law at the University of Florida Levin College of Law. His research focuses on the merits of international cooperation and coordination of tax policies, and on the theory of corporate taxation. He is a co-author of a casebook on U.S. international tax law and numerous articles published both in and outside the United States.

 

Gernot Brähler

Born in 1972 in Düsseldorf, he studied business administration at the Catholic University of Eichstätt-Ingolstadt and received his doctorate in 2001 with a thesis on German direct investments in the U.S.A. After 1½ years of practical work at a tax company, he became a certified tax consultant in 2003. He finished his teaching thesis about cross-border mergers in 2007 and since then has worked as an associate professor (private lecturer) at the Catholic University of Eichstätt-Ingolstadt. His research and publishing activities mainly focus on international tax law, with a particular emphasis on international reorganizations and qualification conflicts.

 

 

Neil Brooks

Professor Neil Brooks has taught tax law and policy at Osgoode Hall Law School in Toronto for over 30 years and is director of the Graduate Program in Taxation. He has published extensively on income tax issues and has been the editor of Canadian Taxation, Osgoode Hall Law Journal and the Canadian Tax Journal. He has been a consultant on tax policy and reform issues to several departments in the government of Canada, and to the governments of New Zealand, Australia and several Canadian provinces. He was Co-Vice Chair of the Ontario Fair Tax Commission, 1991- 94, and has been on several advisory committees for the Auditor-General of Canada and Revenue Canada. Over the past few years he has participated in capacity building projects relating to the income tax in a number of primarily low-income countries including Lithuania (Harvard Institute for International Development); Vietnam (Swedish International Development Agency); Japan (Asian Development Bank); China (AUSAid), Mongolia (AUSAid), South Africa, and Bangladesh (IMF).

 
Florian Brugger

Born in Vienna in 1983, he completed his studies in business administration at the Vienna University of Economics and Business (WU) in 2006. In 2007, he became assistant professor at the Institute for Austrian and International Tax Law at the same University. In his research, he focuses on tax treaty law.

 

 

Michael Daly

Head of the Asia- Pacific Section in the Trade Policies Review Division of the World Trade Organization since 1997, with responsibility for conducting periodic reviews of Members' trade and trade-related policies, including taxation and tax measures. Concurrently, Visiting Scholar and Fiscal Expert in the Fiscal Affairs Department of the International Monetary Fund. After obtaining his doctorate in economics (specializing in public finance) from Queen's University in Canada, he joined the Canadian Government, where he became Senior Economist at the Economic Council and was then Chief of Tax Measures in the Tax Policy and Legislation Branch of the Department of Finance until 1990. From 1990 to 1992, he was an adviser at the European Commission, where he also served as Secretary to the (Ruding) Committee on Company Taxation. Subsequently, he held the post of Principal Economist at the OECD, and was attached to the group negotiating the Multilateral Agreement on Investment, with responsibility inter alia for related tax matters. He has published articles on taxation and other subjects in various academic journals.

 
Luc De Broe

Born 1959, graduated from the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (lic.jur., K.U.Leuven, 1982). He obtained a Master of Laws (LL.M) degree from the Northwestern University School of Law (Chicago, 1986). He obtained a degree in tax law from the Ecole Supérieure des Sciences Fiscales Bruxelles (1987) and obtained his doctorate degree at Katholieke Universiteit Leuven on the dissertation "International tax planning & prevention of abuse under domestic tax law, tax treaties & EC-law. A study of the use of conduit & base companies". Admitted to the Brussels Bar in 1982. Partner in the Brussels office of Stibbe since 1997 and of counsel since 2005. Professor of Tax Law, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (2007). Since 2007 Luc De Broe is a member of the executive committee of the IFA. Luc De Broe is the author of numerous articles on Belgian, international and European tax law; of a manual on cross-border leasing between Belgium and the United States (for which he was awarded the Mitchell B. Carroll Prize of the International Fiscal Association (IFA), 1988); a manual on mergers and divisions of Belgian enterprises (1993) and a dissertation on "International tax planning & prevention of abuse under domestic tax law, tax treaties & EC-law. A study of the use of conduit & base companies".

 

 

Christiana Djanani

She completed her studies in economics and business administration and law. In 1994 Prof. Djanani became head of the Department of General Business Administration and Tax Management at the Catholic University of Eichstätt- Ingolstadt. Since 2004, she is admitted as tax advisor.

 
Carol A. Dunahoo

She is partner of Baker & McKenzie, Washington and specializes in international tax controversies, compliance, and planning. Most recently, Ms. Dunahoo served as the Director, International and the U.S. Competent Authority at the U.S. Internal Revenue Service. Ms. Dunahoo also previously served as Associate International Tax Counsel at the U.S. Department of the Treasury, where she negotiated new treaty agreements with Canada, France, Germany, and Portugal, handled matters involving other treaties, and worked on guidance, legislation, and litigation regarding a variety of international tax issues. She was selected for inclusion in the 2005 and 2006 editions of The Best Lawyers in America. She is a member of the Executive Committee of the IFA.

 

 

Eva Eberhartinger

Born in Linz in 1968, she completed her degree at the Vienna University of Economics and Business Administration in 1994, and then a postgraduate course in European Legal Studies at the University of Exeter. After gaining practical experience in tax consultancy and in the European Parliament, Ms. Eberhartinger has been a University Assistant and lecturer at the Department of Auditing and Accounting at the Vienna University of Economics and Business Administration since 1992. In addition to drawing up auditors' opinions she has also published in the fields of taxation, accounting, corporate taxation and international tendering. In 1999, she achieved a tenured position. At the beginning of 2000, she held a position as a visiting professor at the HEC, Paris. From 2000 until 2002 she was full professor at the University of Münster, Germany. Since 2002, she has held a Chair in Tax Management at the Vienna University of Economics and Business Administration.
 

 
 

 

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