Lieselott Kana

Born in Stockholm in 1955, she graduated from Stockholm University with a bachelor of law degree and went on to a Master of Law at the London School of Economics in 1984. Since 1990 she has been involved with international issues in Chile, at the Ministry of Foreign affairs and then at the Ministry of Finance, in 1997 she was appointed head of international taxation in charge of negotiating taxation treaties. She is a member of the permanent scientific committee of IFA and the United Nations group of tax experts.

 

 

Eric Kemmeren

Born in Dongen (the Netherlands) in 1963. As of 1 April 2002, he has been professor of international tax law at the Fiscal Institute Tilburg of Tilburg University in the Netherlands. As of 1992, he has also been of counsel with Ernst & Young Tax Advisers, and as of 2007 he has also been a Deputy Justice of the Arnhem Court of Appeal (Tax Division), The Netherlands. Before he joined Tilburg University in 1991, he was a tax inspector (corporate and income tax) for 4.5 years. In 2001, he obtained his PhD from Tilburg University on a thesis entitled 'Principle of Origin in Tax Conventions, A Rethinking of Models'. He is an editor of the EUCOTAX Series on European Taxation and EC Tax Review published with Kluwer Law International. Furthermore, he is a co-initiator and coordinator of the European Tax College (a joint Advanced Master in European and International Taxation of K.U. Leuven and Tilburg University), the EUCOTAX Network, and the EUCOTAX Wintercourse. He was also a visiting scholar at New York University (spring 1999). He regularly gives guest lectures at foreign universities (visiting professor, i.a., at Université Panthéon-Sorbonne (Paris-I), France and Northwestern University (Chicago), USA, LUISS (Rome), Italy) and is a frequent speaker at international congresses, seminars and courses. He was and is a member of various academic and non-academic commissions.

 
Christian Kersting

Born in 1971. Studied law in Bonn, Lausanne and Geneva, awarded doctoral degree in 2000 (Bonn) and LL.M. in 2002 (Yale). Senior Research Fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Intellectual Property, Competition and Tax Law (2002 - 2006). Gained post doctoral qualification in 2006 (Munich). Visiting Professor at Lausanne (Summer Term 2007). Since 2007 Professor at Düsseldorf University (Chair of Civil Law, German and International Business Law, Antitrust Law). Research interests include Civil Law, German and European Commercial, Company, Accounting and Capital Markets Law, Comparative Law, Tax Law, Antitrust Law.

 

 

Wolfgang Kessler

Born in 1956 in Offenbach and received his doctorate from the University of Aachen in 1989. He has been a tax consultant since 1991, and since receiving his postdoctoral teaching qualification in 1996 he has been Chair of Business Taxation at the Albert Ludwig University in Freiburg. He specializes in corporate tax law and international tax law. He is also a lecturer at the German Federal Academy of Finance and a member of the Association of Tax Consultants.

 

 

 

Georg Kofler

Born in Linz in 1977. Georg Kofler has earned a doctorate in law as well as a doctorate in business administration in 2002 and 2003 respectively and an LL.M. in International Taxation from New York University in 2004. In 2006 he gained his postdoctoral lecturing qualification with a thesis on "Double Taxation Conventions and European Community Law". He has worked with the International Department of the Austrian Federal Ministry of Finance and as an Assistant Professor at the University of Linz and is now Acting Assistant Professor of Tax Law at New York University School of Law. He serves as a member of the academic staff of several Austrian business and tax law journals and has published widely on issues of Austrian, International and European taxation.

 

 

Han Kogels

Prof. Dr. Han Kogels (born in The Hague, Netherlands, in 1946) is professor of European Tax Law at the Erasmus University Rotterdam EUR and Secretary-General of the International Fiscal Association IFA. He is Chief of the Editorial Board of the International VAT Monitor (IBFD) and member of the Editorial Board of EC Tax Review (Kluwer). Previous functions of Prof. Kogels were a.o. Head of Indirect Tax of Shell International BV in The Hague, Non-executive Chairman of the International Bureau of Fiscal Documentation IBFD, Chairman of the VAT Commission of the Confederation of Netherlands Industry and Employers, Chairman of the Working Parties on Energy Taxes and VAT of the joint ICC-BIAC Working Group on VAT and Chairman of the European Petroleum Industry Association EUROPIA.

 
 

 
 

 

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