Michael Lang

Born in Vienna in 1965. After gaining his postdoctoral lecturing qualification in 1992, he became Professor of Tax Law with a focus on international tax law at WU. He has been Head of the Institute for Austrian and International Tax Law since 1998, as well as responsible for Postgraduate Program in international tax law at WU. Professor Lang has been editor of the scientific journal SWI (Steuer und Wirtschaft International), and was a Partner of Deloitte till 2004. He is the Chairman of the Academic Committee of the European Association of Tax Law Professors (EATLP) and had been visiting professor at New York University, Georgetown University, Peking University, University of Sao Paulo, Sorbonne etc.

 

 

Helmut Loukota

Born in 1940 and graduated as a doctor from the University of Vienna in 1962. In that year he also joined the Austrian tax administration. In 1988 he was appointed as director of the Division for International Tax Law in the Ministry of Finance and acted in that capacity also as head of the Austrian Delegations in the Austrian tax treaty negotiation process. In the course of his work for the OECD he was Vice Chairman of the OECD-Working Party on Double Taxation and Chairman of the Working Group on Partnerships. He is the author of several books and numerous articles, gives lectures at universities, at the OECD Tax Training Centre in Vienna and at the Austrian Federal Tax Academy. In 2000 he became honorary professor. After his retirement at the end of 2006 he continued his work for the Ministry of Finance as an independent consultant in international tax matters.

 
Daniel Lüthi

Daniel Lüthi, born in 1936, graduated from the Universities of Bern and Geneva. He joined the Swiss Federal Tax Administration in 1968. From 1980 to the end of 1998, he was Head of the Division for International Tax Law and Double Taxation Matters. Since 1999, he is practising as an independent consultant. Furthermore, until February 2001, he chaired the OECD Working Party Nr. 1 on double taxation. He now is a member of the OECD Advisory Group in international tax matters. Until recently he was the ad-personam expert of Switzerland in the United Nations Ad hoc Group on International Cooperation in Tax Matters. He is a visiting professor at the WU.

 

 

Guglielmo Maisto

Guglielmo Maisto founded Maisto e Associati in 1991. He is a Professor of Tax Law at the Catholic University of Piacenza; he has acted as a consultant to the Ministry for European Community Affairs and is the Chairman of the delegated Board of Trustees of the International Bureau of Fiscal Documentation (IBFD) in Amsterdam. He is the Chairman of the legal and tax committee of the American Chamber of Commerce in Italy and represents the Italian Association of Industries at the OECD Business Industry Advisory Committee in Paris. He is a member of several law societies internationally and of the editorial board of various Italian and foreign tax legal journals. He is a member of the EU Joint Transfer Pricing Forum and he has acted as general and national reporter at several annual congresses thereof.

 
Jacques Malherbe

Jacques Malherbe is a professor emeritus of law at Louvain University and a partner resident in the Brussels law firm of Liedekerke. He holds a doctorate in law and a degree in Economic Sciences from the Catholic University of Louvain (UCL) and a Master of Laws (LL.M) degree from Harvard University. His publications include the Business Operations in Belgium Portfolio (BNA) and leading textbooks on Belgian corporate law, on International taxation and Belgian corporation tax. He lectures and frequently makes speeches on international topics and has written a number of articles on the topic. He recently directed the drafting of a study at the request of the European Parliament on "The impact of tax rulings of the European Court of Justice on direct taxation". Jacques Malherbe teaches European financial and tax law in various universities (Louvain, EDHEC - Lille, WU, Hamburg and Bologna). He is a member of the Permanent Scientific Committee of IFA (International Fiscal Association).
 

 
 

 

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