Daniel Gutmann is
a Professor of Tax
Law at University
Paris-1 Panthéon-
Sorbonne. He specializes
in International
and Comparative Taxation, a field
in which he wrote numerous articles for
international and domestic tax reviews. He
also wrote a book on International private
law. In addition to his academic activities,
Daniel Gutmann is an of-counsel with
CMS Bureau Francis Lefebvre, as well as
an independent counsel for various private
and public institutions. He also acted as
a Consulting Counsel with the IMF Legal
Department, specializing in technical
assistance in tax legislation (Washington
D.C., Jan.-July 2006). This provided him
with an opportunity to draft tax legislations
on individual and corporate income
tax, tax proceedings and oil funds. He was
a Member of the European Commission
Workshop of Experts on Tax Treaties and
EC Law (July 2005) and is still active in
the "ECJ Task Force" of the Confédération
Fiscale Européenne. Daniel is one of the
founders and the present Scientific Director
of the French Institute for Tax Policy,
whose goal is to provide for independent
advice for tax policy makers in France. He
is also one of the founders and directors
of "L'année fiscale", a French tax review
with a focus on international tax questions.
He is a Member of the Executive Board
of the European Association of Tax Law
Professors. He was appointed Professor in
1997 after his PhD. He graduated from
the Ecole des Hautes Etudes Commerciales
(HEC, 1990) and he obtained two DEA in
Private Law and in Legal Philosophy (Post
Graduate Degrees) in 1991 and 1992 at
the University of Paris II.
Born in Bruck/
Mur in 1981. She
obtained a business
degree from the
University of Graz
and a law degree
from the University of Vienna before she
completed the LL.M. program at the
University of London (King's College). In
2005, she became assistant professor at
the Institute for Austrian and International
Tax Law, WU, and has lectured there since
2006. Her research focuses on international
and EC tax law.
Francois
Graduate of the
French Business
School HEC (1988)
with a Master's
degree in Law
(1992). From 1993
to 1998, he was tax lawyer at the French
desk of Bureau Francis Lefebvre in Berlin.
Since 1993, he has been a lawyer in the
international tax division of Bureau Francis
Lefebvre in Paris. He is now tax partner at
CMS Bureau Francis Lefebvre. He is coauthor
of "Steuern in Frankreich", a book
published in Germany and dedicated to
French taxation
Born 1965 in Hannover
(Germany),
after studying Law
and European Legal
Practice at the Universities
of Göttingen,
Rouen and Hannover and after his
practical legal training (Referendariat) he
joined the German Federal Ministry of
Economics and Technology (Legal Service,
later Section for the Electricity Supply
Industry) in 1998. In 2001 he took up the
position of legal secretary (référendaire)
at the Court of Justice of the European
Communities, first in the chambers of
Advocate General Siegbert Alber, and since
2003 in the chambers of Advocate General
Juliane Kokott. Thomas Henze mainly
works on cases concerning VAT and direct
taxation. He has been teaching ECJ procedural
law and the Court's recent case
law at the Deutsche Richterakademie (German
Judges Academy) and the Bundesfinanzakademie
(Federal Finance Academy).
Born in Hamburg in
1942, where he also
completed his studies
in law; second
State examination
1968 in Berlin. 1968
- 1972 Assistant to
Prof. Bülck at the Speyer Postgraduate
Administration School, 1972 - 1973 Second
Secretary to the Legal Affairs Committee of
the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council
of Europe in Strasbourg, 1973 - 1977 Director
of Studies at the Gustav Stresemann
Institute. From 1978 until his retirement
in 2007, Mr Heydt was an official of the
European Commission in Brussels, dealing
in different units with taxation and financial
institutions. From 1998, and from 2004
as Head of unit TAXUD E3, he dealt with
monitoring the application of Community
law in the field of direct taxation.
Born in Vienna in
1980, she graduated
from the
Vienna University of
Economics and Business
Administration
in 2003. After completing the Postgraduate
Program in International Tax Law in
Vienna in 2004 she joined the Institute for
Austrian and International Tax Law at the
Vienna University of Economics and Business
(WU) as Assistant Professor and has
lectured there since 2006. Her research
and publishing activities mainly focus on
International and European Tax Law.
(c) LL.M. Program in International Tax Law of the
Vienna University of Economics and Business (WU)
c/o Academy of Public Accountants,
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