Margaret Nettinga

Born in New Haven in 1947, she completed studies in history and anthropology in New York, and in law at the University of Leiden. She was a member of the research staff of the IBFD in Amsterdam from 1991 to 2005. In that period Ms Nettinga was the editor of the monthly scientific journal "European Taxation". She is now working as a free-lance editor and translator and gives courses in legal and fiscal English.

 

 

T.P. Ostwal

Born in 1954 T.P. Ostwal is an economic graduate from India and a Chartered Accountant in practice since 1978. He is a senior partner of M/S T.P. Ostwal & Associates. He was a member of the CID TAG of OECD & BIAC. Vice President of International Fiscal Association (IFA) and also chairman - India Branch. He has been appointed on several committees set by the Ministry of Finance and other ministries of Government of India. He was Professor at the University of Mumbai and is actively involved in handling international tax issues on cross-border transactions for a wide range of clients in India particularly in the field of technology and software and telecommunication industry etc. He co-authored "Transfer Pricing Manual" published in India. He has been adjudged as 11th in the top 50 Tax Professionals in the world for the year 2006 by Tax Business magazine of UK.

 
Frans Pennings

Studied Dutch language and literature and Dutch law at Utrecht University. As from 1990 he worked at Tilburg University, since 2000 as professor of international social security law. In 2002 Pennings was appointed as professor of international social security law at Utrecht University. He now combines the two professorships. Since 1994 he is judge in the Central Appeals Court for Social Security, since 2004 President of the Dutch section of the European Institute of Social Security.

 

 

Ariane Pickering

Ariane has pursued a career in taxation for more than 25 years, working in the international tax law development and interpretation areas of the Australian Tax Office and in the Australian Treasury. She currently holds the position of Principal Adviser - Treaties in the International Tax and Treaties Division of Treasury, with responsibility for developing and implementing tax treaty policy, and negotiating Australia's tax treaties. For a number of years, she has been Australia's chief tax treaty negotiator and main delegate to the OECD's working party on tax treaties - Working Party 1 of the Committee on Fiscal Affairs.

 
Hans Pijl

Hans was a partner with Andersen's and joined Deloitte in 2002. He's a parttime judge in the Hague Tax Court of Appeals, and is the non-governmental expert in the UN sub- Group of Experts for the definition of the PE-Article. Hans studied fiscal law (with honors) and linguistics at the Universities of Leiden and Groningen, and worked for the Dutch Revenue Service and the Ministry of Finance. He's a lecturer at the International Tax Center Leiden and at IBFD. Hans is a member of European Taxation's board of editors. He has written numerous articles on international tax law.

 

 

Pasquale Pistone

Born in 1968 in Naples, he graduated cum laude in law at the Federico II University of Naples in 1990 and obtained his doctoral degree in 2000 cum dignitate publicationis at the University of Genoa with a thesis on Community Law and Tax Treaties, the English version of which received an honourable mention at the 2000 IFA Mitchell B. Carroll Prize. He is Associate Professor of Tax Law at the University of Salerno and EURYI-ESF Professor at the WU Vienna. His current research engagements include a 5-years project on European law and the relations with third countries in the field of direct taxes, which was the first to be granted the EURYI-ESF award in the area of law. He is fluent in seven languages, frequent speaker at international tax conferences and the author of two monographic studies, as well as over sixty articles on various tax issues.

 
Patrick Plansky

Born in Vienna in 1981, he completed his studies in business administration at the Vienna University of Economics and Business Administration. In 2004, he became assistant professor at the Institute for Austrian and International Tax Law at the same University and has lectured there since 2006. In his research he focuses on the tax implications of the fundamental freedoms.

 

 

Luis Miguel Poiares Pessna Maduro

Born 1967 (Portugal); degree in law (University of Lisbon, 1990); assistant lecturer (European University Institute, 1991); Doctor in Laws (European University Institute, Florence, 1996); visiting professor (London School of Economics, College of Europe, Natolin; Ortega y Gasset Institute, Madrid; Catholic University, Portugal; Institute of European Studies, Macao); Professor (Universidade Nova, Lisbon, 1997); Fulbright Visiting Research Fellow (Harvard University, 1998); co-director of the Academy of International Trade Law; co-editor (Hart Series on European Law and Integration, European Law Journal) and member of the editorial board of several law journals; Advocate General at the Court of Justice since 7 October 2003.

 
Albert J. Rädler

In 1960 obtained his doctorate at the University of Munich on the subject of corporate tax harmonization. He served as a lecturer at the University of Regensburg from 1966 to 1982, as well as head of the Ottmar Bühler Research Center for International Tax Law. He held a chair in international business taxation at the University of Hamburg from 1982 to 1998. In 1991/1992 he was member of the Ruding Committee appointed by the EU Commission. As well as being Senior Tax Partner at Linklaters LLP in Munich, he is a member of the Scientific Committee of the CFE (Confédération Fiscale Européenne), the Association of European Tax Consultants, of which he was the chairman from 1984 to 1988. He is also member of several supervisory boards of both listed and unlisted companies.

 

 
 

 

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