Thomas Ecker

Born in Vienna in 1981. After he graduated in international business administration and law, he became research assistant first at the Center of Research for European and International Tax Law and since 2006 at the Institute for Austrian and International Tax Law at the Vienna University of Economics and Business (WU). Sporadically, he is also involved in the work of the OECD. Mr. Ecker has published a number of essays and articles and lectured on numerous occasions on national and international tax law.

 
Timothy Edgar

Tim Edgar is a professor at the Faculty of Law, The University of Western Ontario, and is the Director of the National Tax Centre. Before that, he was an associate with Stikeman, Elliott in Toronto. He has also served as a consultant to the Department of Finance, the Canada Revenue Agency, the Auditor General, the International Monetary Fund, the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development, the Australian Treasury Department, and the Australian Taxation Office. He was also a senior policy adviser with the Policy Advice Division of New Zealand Inland Revenue. Prof. Edgar has published numerous articles in the Canadian Tax Journal and other periodicals and is a co-editor of the Current Tax Reading feature of the journal. He is the author of The Income Tax Treatment of Financial Instruments: Theory and Practice.

 

 

Eberhard Eichenhofer

Born in 1950, he studied law and political science at the University of Tübingen and Saarbrücken. Since 1997 he holds the chair in labor law / social security law / civil law at the Friedrich-Schiller- University of Jena. He frequently gives advice on special problems of coordination of social security for the EU Commission and national institutions. His lectures and publications are concerned mainly with the subject of international social security. He is a member of the European Institute of Social Security.

 
Thomas Eilmansberger

Prof. Eilmansberger is head of the Department for Labour, Economic and European Law at the University of Salzburg and member of the Austria's Federal Procurement Review Commission. Before returning to the Law Faculty in Salzburg in 2000 he was a Fulbright Scholar visiting professor at Southwestern University School of Law. Prof. Eilmansberger also served as resident counsel for the international law firm Bruckhaus Westrick Heller Löber (now Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer) in Brussels, where he represented the European Commission in a number of cases before the European Court of Justice. He was a member of the group of experts advising the German government on the reform of the GWB (German competition law). Recently, Prof. Eilmansberger advised the Hungarian Energy Office regarding the application of EC competition and regulatory law to long-term power purchasing agreements. He is the author of several books and numerous articles on European economic law.

 

Peter Essers

 

Peter Essers

Studied fiscal economics at Tilburg University, The Netherlands. He is Professor of Tax Law at Tilburg University, specializing in national and international personal and corporate income tax. He is director of the European Tax College and coordinator of EUCOTAX (European Universities Cooperating on Taxes). He is Visiting Professor at the Université Panthéon-Sorbonne, the University of Bologna and the University of Osnabrück. He is also member of the Dutch Senate and chairman of the Finance Committee of the Senate.

 
Carlo Garbarino

Carlo Garbarino is Professor of Taxation at Bocconi University, Milan, member of Dipartimento di Studi Giuridici and of Steering Committee of the Ph.D, Program in International Economic Law of the same University, affiliated member of the Department of Accounting, Bocconi. Member of the Steering Committee Research Department - SDA Bocconi. Ph.D. in Comparative and International Taxation, Master of Laws at the University of Michigan, Visiting Scholar at Yale University Law School and Visiting Professor at Université Sorbonne-Paris and University of Michigan Law School. He is also a member of the Faculty of Scuola Direzione Aziendale (SDA) - Bocconi, of International Network for Tax Research - OECD, Paris, and of Tax Committee-American Chamber of Commerce; a member of the Editorial Board of Alta Scuola Formazione ODC, Milan, Coordinator of Comitato Tecnico Internazionale at Bocconi University, Director of Osservatorio Fiscale e Contabile - SDA Bocconi, Editor of EC Tax Review, Economia & Management - SDA, Diritto tributario internazionale; Editor-in-chief of Fiscalità Internazionale, Director of the Series of volumes "Comparative and International Taxation", Bocconi University Press - Egea, Milan; editor of four volumes: Aspetti fiscali delle operazioni internazionali, 1995; Convenzione Italia-USA contro le doppie imposizioni. Commentario, 2001; Le Convenzioni dell'Italia in materia di imposte su reddito e patrimonio. Commentario, 2002, Aspetti internazionali della riforma fiscale, Milano 2004. He is author of Manuale di tassazione internazionale, Milan, 2008, and of three monographs, as well as of about seventy publications on Italian, comparative and international taxation.

 

 

F. Alfredo García Prats

Born in Castellón, in 1966. Doctor in Law with Extraordinary Prize (1994) with his thesis on permanent establishments in international tax law. Professor of Financial and Tax Law at the University of Valencia (Spain) since 1997, visiting professor at the Universities of London, Harvard, Leiden, Leuven, Bergamo, Bocconi, Salamanca and Toledo, professor García Prats specializes in International Tax Law, EC Tax Law and Tax Principles. Observer and Adviser of the Ad Hoc Group of Experts on International Cooperation in Tax Matters of the United Nations since 1995 and of the Fiscal Committee of the United Nations since 2005, Senior Counsel at the IMF in 2008, member of the scientific committee of different tax and international tax journals .

 
Charles Gustafson

Professor of Law at the Georgetown University Law Center in Washington, D.C. He lectures in various areas of public international law, international trade and investment, and federal taxation, and recently completed five and a half years of service as the Associate Dean for International and Graduate Programs. He is a co-author of several casebooks on federal income taxation, including 'Taxation of International Transactions', as well as articles on issues of international law and taxation. He has practised in New York and Washington, served in the Office of the Legal Adviser to the Department of State and lectured at universities on every continent. He spent several years as a member of the Faculty of Law at Ahmadu Bello University in Nigeria. He has also served as consultant to various United States Government agencies and to several international organisations, as well as arbitrating in commercial and investment disputes. He is an active member of the American Law Institute and has served on a number of committees for the American Bar Association. He received his J.D. degree from the University of Chicago and his B.S. degree from the University of Buffalo.

 

 
 

 

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