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Kees van Raad

is Professor of International Tax Law at the University of Leiden (The Netherlands), Chairman of the International Tax Center Leiden and Director of the Leiden Adv LLM Program in International Tax Law. After obtaining his law degree from Leiden, and a postgraduate degree from Georgetown University (Washington DC, USA) he worked for several years at International Department of the Netherlands Ministry of Finance. In 1986 he obtained at Leiden University a doctorate in law (dissertation: Nondiscrimination in International Tax Law [Kluwer, 1986]) and was appointed to the newly created chair in International Tax Law at that university. In addition to his teaching, researching, and supervising doctoral dissertations at Leiden University, he serves as a judge at a regional Netherlands tax court, specializing in international cases, and acts as a consultant to Loyens & Loeff, a leading Dutch (tax) law firm.

Courses: Fundamentals of International Tax Law, Tax Treaties, EU Tax Law

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John F. Avery Jones CBE

Graduated from Cambridge University. Judge of the Upper Tribunal (Tax Chamber) in the UK. He was President of the British Branch of the IFA, as well as a member and Vice-president of the IFA Committee, and is a past Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the IBFD (International Bureau of Fiscal Documentation) in Amsterdam. Retired Visiting Professor at the London School of Economics. Consulting editor of the journal "British Tax Review".

Course: Tax Treaties

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Emidio Cacciapuoti

Graduated in economics at the University of Pavia (1996). LLM degree in Corporate Tax Law (Bocconi University [Milan],1998) and LLM degree in International Taxation (Leiden, 2002). Head of the tax department of SJ Berwin LLP Milan (since 2006). Lecturer in domestic and international taxation at various Italian universities, including the University Carlo Cattaneo (LIUC, Castellanza). Chartered tax advisor (member of Ordine dei Dottori Commercialisti, since 2001).

Courses: International Tax Planning, Fundamentals of International Tax Law, Tax Treaties

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Frank A. Engelen

Law degree (1996, Erasmus University Rotterdam). Doctorate (2004, Erasmus University Rotterdam), dissertation: ‘Interpretation of Tax Treaties under International Law’ (IBFD, 2005). Professor of International Tax Law (2005, Leiden University). Board Member of the International Tax Center Leiden (2005). Partner with PricewaterhouseCoopers, Rotterdam (2003).

Courses: Tax Treaties, EU Tax Law

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Malcolm J. Gammie

Barrister. Law Degree (Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge, 1972). Former tax partner at Linklaters (1987-1997). Research Fellow at the Institute for Fiscal Studies and Research Director for the IFS' Tax Law Review Committee. Past Chairman and Secretary of the IFS' Executive Committee. Chairman Task Force on EC Taxation, Centre for European Policy Studies (Brussels 1999-2005). Member Permanent Scientific Committee of the International Fiscal Association and Vice-Chairman IFA's UK Branch. Member Inland Revenue's Tax Law Rewrite Consultative Committee. 1998 Unilever Professor of International Business Law, Leiden University. Founding Editor of British Tax Library's Land Taxation. Present, visiting professor at Sydney and Melbourne Universities Law Faculties.

Courses: Tax Treaties, EU Tax Law

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Jan de Goede

Prof. Jan J.P. de Goede is currently Senior Principal, Tax Knowledge Management at the IBFD Tax Knowledge Centre. He previously held several management positions at the IBFD, lastly the position of Director of the IBFD Knowledge Centre. Before joining the IBFD he was for many years Head of the Bilateral Affairs Division, Directorate for International Tax Policy and Legislation, and also formerly Head of the Company Tax Legislation Division, Directorate for Legislation on Direct Taxes, both at the Dutch Ministry of Finance. While working at the government he was a member of Working Pary 1 on Tax Treaties of the OECD for many years, and was involved in many tax treaty negotiations and in domestic legislation in particular regarding company taxation.
Jan is a part-time Professor of International and European Tax Law at the University of Łódz in Poland and he supervises and lectures on the International and European Tax Law part of the LL.M on Business Law from the VU University of Amsterdam, as well as a similar program for the Pallas LL.M at Essex University. He is also occasionally lecturing at the LL.M. program on International Tax Law at Leiden University and at the University of Sao Paulo, Eotvos Lorand University of Budapest and occasionally at other universities. Finally, he is the IBFD contact person for relations with the OECD and the IBFD observer at the UN Committee of Experts on International Cooperation in Tax Matters.

Course: Tax Treaties

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Stefano Grilli

Graduated in economics at Bocconi University (Milan, 1994). LLM in International Taxation (Leiden, 2003). Ph.D. researcher in Public and Tax Law in the European Dimension at the University of Bergamo, Senior Associate with Di Tanno Studio Legale Tributario in Milan (since 2005). Lecturer in domestic and international taxation at various Italian universities, including Bocconi University (Milan). Chartered tax advisor (member of the Ordine dei Dottori Commercialista, since 1997).

Courses: Tax Treaties, EU Tax Law

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A. Luisa Perrotti

Luisa has been head of the Tax Treaty & MAP Unit (2009 and 2010-2011) and of the Consulting and Coordinating Unit (2005-2009) at the Department of Finance, International Relations Office of the Italian Ministry of Economy and Finance. During her time in these capacities she has participated extensively in OECD and UN work on international taxation. Since March 2011, she works in the Secretariat to the Board of the Italian Authority in charge of public contracts. She received her PhD from Oxford University after obtaining her law degree and Masters’ degree from the University of Rome, La Sapienza. She is an alumna of the French ENA (CIC 2009-2010). In 1991, she qualified at the Rome Bar (Consiglio dell’Ordine degli Avvocati e Procuratori di Roma). She has taught at LSE (London), Cambridge and Oxford Universities (UK) and Insead (Fontainebleau-France).

Course: Tax Treaties

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Hans Pijl

Linguistics (1978) and law degree from Leiden University (1987). Partner at Deloitte Amsterdam. Part time judge in the Hague Tax Court of Appeals. Lecturer of International Tax law at Leiden University. Member of the editorial board of the Dutch scientific series on international taxation and European Taxation. Non-governmental expert in the United Nations sub-Group of Experts for the definition of the PE-Article (until 2010).Frequent lecturer on International Tax Law, e.g. at the IBFD since 2000, at the Training Institute for Dutch Tax Inspectors (1994-1996), the Board of Dutch Tax Advisers (1997-1999), the Postgraduate International Program for Chartered Controllers (1999), the Chinese Ministry of Finance (1999 and 2001), the Sri Lanka International Tax Congress (1999), the University of Florida (2000), the Finnish tax authorities (2004), the University of London (2004), the CIOT congress in Amsterdam (2005); the Norwegian tax authorities (COFTA)(2005); the Danish Ministry of Finance (2005); the University of Milan (2005); The Quest for the Holy Grail in International Tax Law (2006, Leiden), the International Taxation Conference (Mumbai 2007).

Course: Tax Treaties

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Raffaele Russo

Law degree from University Federico II (Naples). LLM in International Taxation (Leiden, 2002). Tax Treaty Advisor at OECD Centre for Tax Policy and Administration (since 2007). Author of several articles on international tax matters and editor of the book ‘The Attribution of Profits to Permanent Establishments: The taxation of intracompany dealings in 2005’. Junior Fellow of the International Tax Center Leiden.

Courses: Tax Treaties, EU Tax Law, International Tax Planning

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Alexendar Rust

Born in 1973. He studied law with a specialization in tax law in Freiburg (Breisgau), Geneva and Munich. During his Referendariat (legal traineeship) he worked as an assistant judge and as a public prosecutor at the High Court of Munich, as a law clerk at the Ministry of Finance and as a tax advisor in private practice. In 2001 he was appointed assistant professor at the University of Munich, in 2008/2009 he worked as Acting Assistant Professor at New York University. Since 2010 he is associate professor for tax law at the University of Luxembourg. His PhD thesis on the compatibility of CFC legislation with tax treaty and EC law won the European Academic Tax Thesis Award. Alexander Rust is specialized in international tax law as well as European tax law.

Course: Tax Treaties

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Jacques Sasseville

Degrees in law and accounting (including Master's degrees in both law and taxation). Former professor in the Department of Accounting, University of Quebec (Montreal). Head of the Tax Treaty Unit of the Centre for Tax Policy and Administration at the OECD.

Course: Tax Treaties

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Stefano Simontacchi

Stefano Simontacchi is a partner in the Milan office and is a member of the firm’s Partners Executive Committee.
He focuses on tax law, with particular emphasis on legal opinions, real estate transactions, real estate and equity funds, private equity, M&A and reorganisations, transfer pricing, and fiscal planning.

Courses: Fundamentals of International Tax Law, Tax Treaties

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Eelco van der Stok

Law degree from Leiden University (1992), and LL.M programme on Emory University, Atlanta. Loyens & Volkmaars (1994-1998). Partner Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer (1999- ). Editor of Taxation of Derivatives and Financial Instruments and a regular contributor to international publications. Listed in The European Legal 500 and the International Tax Review survey as ‘leading individual’.

Course: Tax Treaties

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Laurent Sykes

Laurent Sykes has a wide ranging practice which includes business tax, employment tax and private client matters, in both the advisory and litigation contexts. He advises on business taxation at both the company and shareholder level, including on VAT, stamp taxes, customs duties, the tax treatment of Islamic finance and international tax (including EU law). He has a special interest in the interplay between tax and accounting, and in the taxation of partnerships. On the employment side he advises on remuneration planning, status disputes and PAYE matters. His private client practice is broad but has a particular focus on the tax treatment of non-UK domiciled individuals. Litigation is an important part of his work and has taken him to the Tax Tribunal, the High Court and the Court of Appeal.

Course: Tax Treaties

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Stef van Weeghel

Degrees in commercial law and tax law (Leiden). LLM in taxation (New York). PhD (University of Amsterdam). Professor of international tax law at the University of Amsterdam. Partner at PricewaterhouseCoopers. Author and co-author of several books and numerous articles on international taxation. Serves on the boards of a number of academic and professional organisations.

Course: Tax Treaties

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Joanna Wheeler

Joanna Wheeler, TEP, is a member of the IBFD academic group. Previously, she was the editor of many different IBFD publications, and the founding editor of IBFD’s loose-leaf publication The International Guide to the Taxation of Trusts. Ms Wheeler was the pioneer of IBFD's programme of online courses, and before that she taught regularly for IBFD classroom courses. She also gives regular guest seminars for the universities of Cambridge, Leiden, London (Queen Mary College) and Neuchatel. Ms Wheeler was a member of the Research Subcommittee of the International Fiscal Association (IFA) for many years, and was general reporter for the IFA Congress held in Kyoto in 2007 on the topic “Conflicts in the Attribution of Income to a person”.
Joanna Wheeler TEP is an author and co-author of the following online courses:
Residence (author)
Permanent Establishments (co-author)
Fundamentals of Tax Treaties (co-author)

Course: Tax Treaties

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Wim Wijnen

Lecturer in international tax law at Libera Università Internazionale degli Studi Sociali (LUISS, Rome). Counsel to the Academic Chair at the IBFD (International Bureau of Fiscal Documentation). Part-time judge of the Court of Appeal, ‘s-Hertogenbosch (The Netherlands). Former tax treaty negotiator for the Dutch Ministry of Finance (1979-1991) and tax advisor with Loyens and Volkmaars (Rotterdam, 1991-1993). Author of several contributions on Dutch, European and international tax issues.

Course: Tax Treaties

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