Sohrab Dastur: Sohrab Dastur is a senior advocate who has been in practice in India for over forty-five years. He is a past president of the Chamber of Income-tax Consultants. Until September 2004, he was a member of the Permanent Scientific Committee of the International Fiscal Association (IFA). He was formerly a professor of law at the Sydenham College and the Government Law College in Mumbai. He has co-authored books and written several articles on tax laws.

Jairaj Purandare: Jairaj Purandare is the Executive Director - in - Charge, Western Region, with PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) and Leader of the Markets & Industries Group for PwC in India. Prior to September 2004, he was Chairman of Ernst & Young in India. Until 2002, he was the Country Head of the Tax and Regulatory practice of Andersen in India, with several years’ experience in advising multinational companies. Jai has extensive experience on a wide range of professional issues, both international and domestic.

Roger Wheeler: Roger is a tax consultant with KPMG’s Washington National Tax Office. Before joining KPMG, Roger worked 34 years with the General Motors Corporation, the last 15 as Chief Tax Officer. For the past two years, he was nominated by “Tax Business” magazine as one of the “top 50” worldwide tax professionals. He is a member of the Advisory Board of “Tax Management International” and the Editorial Board of “International Tax Review”. He is also a member of the International Fiscal Association (IFA), and served as President of FA-USA Branch (2004-2006). While at GM, Roger was an active member of the Detroit Chapter of the Tax Executives Institute (TEI). Upon his retirement (2006) he was presented the TEI’s prestigious “President’s Award” for long term contributions to the Institute.

Mukesh Butani: Mukesh Butani is a Partner and Tax practice leader of BMR & Associates. He specializes in International Tax and Transfer Pricing practice matters. Mukesh was the Tax practice leader of Ernst & Young until August 2004. Prior to joining Ernst & Young in June 2002, Mr. Butani led Andersen’s International tax &Transfer Pricing services and Oil & Gas industry teams. He is member of OECD’s business restructuring & advisory group and served as Chairman of Tax & Tariff Committee of American Chambers of Commerce for three years. He is member of ICC’s taxation commission and served as member of India government’s task force on E- commerce taxation.

Nishith Desai: Nishith Desai is the founder of Nishith Desai Associates, a research-based law firm. He is an international tax and corporate lawyer, researcher, author and lecturer. In 2004, he was ranked as No. 28 in the Top 50 most influential tax professionals in the world by Tax Business magazine. He holds a special licence from the State Bar of California to practice Indian law. Nishith Desai’s practice encompasses an extensive range of tax, corporate and technology matters, with a strong emphasis on private equity and funds. His firm also conducts research on legal and tax matters affecting public policy issues. Nishith has been a member of several Indian government committees.

Dinesh Kanabar : Dinesh Kanabar is an Executive Director and Leader of Tax Practice of PricewaterhouseCoopers in India.  He specializes in domestic and international taxation including joint ventures, collaborations, mergers and acquisitions and Transfer Pricing." Until April 2005, Dinesh was a partner of RSM & Co. in India. He is a member of the Research Committee of the Bombay Chartered Accountants’ Society and has contributed several articles and papers on international tax issues in India and abroad. He has co-authored a publication of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of India and the Bombay Chartered Accountants' Society on the subject.

Peter Barnes: Peter is the Tax Counsel - International for General Electric. He supports GE and its affiliates on tax matters throughout the Asia-Pacific region and works on global initiatives such as transfer pricing. Prior to joining GE in 1991, Peter worked for four and a half years for the Office of Tax Policy at the U.S. Department of Treasury in Washington, D.C., where he concluded his period of service as U.S. Deputy International Tax Counsel. Previously Peter clerked for the Hon. Gerhard A. Gesell, U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, and worked as a tax attorney with Hughes Hubbard & Reed in Washington, D.C. Peter graduated from the University of North Carolina in 1974 and received his law degree from Yale University in 1980.

T.P. Ostwal: T.P. Ostwal is the senior partner of the firm of T.P. Ostwal & Associates in India. He is the Chairman of International Fiscal Association – India Branch. He is also a member of the Executive Committee of IFA Netherlands. He is a member of the Expert Committee formed by the Central Board of Direct Taxes in India for framing the Transfer Pricing regulations, and a member of the Emerging Issues Task Force on Non-resident Indians. He is a member of the expert group on Transfer Pricing of the OECD in Paris. He is also a member of TAG (E-Commerce) and BIAC set up by the OECD, Paris. In 2007 he was ranked as 11th most influential tax professional in the world by Tax Business magazine.

Robert Ackerman: Bob is the Americas Leader Transfer Pricing Services for Ernst & Young Worldwide. He serves as a technical advisor assisting multinational organizations with global transfer pricing planning, tax effective supply chain practices, documentation, and local-country controversy resolution. Bob has extensive experience in the development and implementation of tax strategies regarding the migration of intangibles and execution of licensing and cost-sharing arrangements. His experience also includes a significant emphasis on resolution of international transfer pricing controversies at audit and competent authority. Bob has over 35 years experience involving international tax and transfer pricing issues with Ernst & Young LLP and the Internal Revenue Service. He was the initial Director of the Advance Pricing Agreement (APA) program at the Internal Revenue Service.

Garry Stone: Garry is the Global and US leader of the Transfer Pricing Group of PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) based in Chicago. He joined the firm in 1988. Over the years he has directed and performed numerous analyses of intercompany pricing and economic valuation issues for Fortune 500 size companies. His projects cover a wide range of industries, including the automotive, banking, chemical, computer hardware and software, cosmetics, distribution, electrical controls and equipment, financial markets, food processing, heavy and industrial equipment, medical supplies, mining, pharmaceuticals, plastics, retailing, semiconductor and telecommunications industries. Prior to joining the firm, he was an independent consultant and Assistant Professor of Economics at Northeastern University in Boston. He holds a Ph.D. (Economics with a minor in Finance) from The Ohio State University.

Uday Ved: Uday is the Executive Director and Head of Tax – KPMG India. Uday spcialises in international tax, transfer pricing, foreign investment and exchange control regulations. Prior to joining the firm, Uday was earlier Partner and Head of Tax in RSM & Co. in India. Prior to RSM, Uday was a Senior Tax Partner in Arthur Andersen, India. Uday is very active in professional circles as a frequent speaker on international tax issues. -

Matthew Frank: Matthew joined GE in June 2008 as Senior Tax Counsel, Transfer Pricing. From 2003 to 2008, Matthew was Director of the US Advance Pricing Agreement Program, and prior to that was a shareholder in the Washington DC firm Caplin & Drysdale, Chartered. Frank received his law degree from the University of Michigan and taught international tax for many years at the University of Michigan Law School and the University of Pennsylvania Law School.

Prakash Chandra: Prakash Chandra is the current Director General (International Taxation), Government of India. He joined the Indian Revenue Service in 1973 as an Income Tax Officer and rose to the rank of the Chief Commissioner in January 2007.

David Sutherland: David is a Managing Director with Morgan Stanley and has responsibility for Morgan Stanley's tax affairs in Asia. Prior to coming to Asia, David worked for the U.S. Department of Treasury where he was the Associate International Tax Counsel. In that job, David represented the U.S. Government regarding tax issues with most countries in Asia, including successful tax treaty negotiations with Thailand and Indonesia. Earlier in his career, David worked for Arthur Andersen; Cadwalder, Wickersham & Taft; and Caplin & Drysdale. David Sutherland is the Chairman of the Taxation Committee of the American Chamber of Commerce in Hong Kong and is a member of the Joint Liaison Committee on Taxation that advises the Hong Kong Inland Revenue Department on matters of tax administration. David is the President of the Tax Executives Institute in Asia.

Murray Clayson: Murray is the global head of the tax practice group at Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer. He is based in London, and is responsible for co-coordinating its cross-border tax practice. He specialises in structured finance and capital markets taxation, international tax, banking and securities tax, leasing and tax-based financial products, particularly cross-border. Murray is listed as a recommended expert in several legal and tax journals and directories. He is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Taxation and past-Chairman of the British Branch of the International Fiscal Association (IFA). He joined Freshfields in 1983 and has been a partner at the firm since 1993.

Shanto Ghosh: Shanto is a director and principal transfer pricing economist with Deloitte Haskins & Sells in India. He has nearly ten years consulting experience on a wide range of issues in international transfer pricing, valuation, corporate finance and organizational design involving clients from high technology, pharmaceutical and financial services industry. Shanto has a doctorate in applied microeconomics and financial economics from Boston University. In addition, he has been a lecturer at Boston University, a teaching fellow for several years at the Harvard Institute of International Development and a lecturer of Financial Economics and Development Economics for three years at the University of California, Berkeley.

Shikha Gupta: Shikha leads the Transfer Pricing Centre of Excellence set up by GE in India in 2003. In her current role as Vice President, she coordinates and manages the transfer pricing compliance needs in various jurisdictions of business entities within the GE worldwide organisation and develops best practices to meet these needs. Prior to joining GE, Shikha worked for a few years with Arthur Andersen as a tax consultant. She is an Indian chartered accountant by training and postgraduate in finance and accounting from the London School of Economics and Political Science.

Caroline Silberzstein: Caroline is the Head of the Transfer Pricing Unit in the OECD Centre for Tax Policy and Administration. She is the Secretariat to Working Party No. 6 of the Committee on Fiscal Affairs which is the body in charge of the taxation of Multinational Enterprises and specifically of transfer pricing. Main current projects include the review of the comparability standard and of profit methods; and the development of guidance on the application of the arm’s length principle to business restructurings. Before she joined the OECD in 2001, Caroline Silberztein has been a tax partner in two international law firms in Paris.

Michael Murphy: Mike is an economist and managing director with Alvarez & Marsal Taxand, LLC and the National Practice Leader of the firm's Transfer Pricing practice in the United States. His experience includes transfer pricing planning and documentation services relating to procurement and logistics management, shared services, equipment and facility leasing, contract and toll manufacturing, commissionaire and stripped distributor structures, IP licensing/valuation and migration. He has also assisted his clients with multi-country transfer pricing documentation, cost sharing arrangements, audit defense and appeals proceedings, and filings for Competent Authority relief and Advance Pricing Agreements, Previously, he was a partner with Arthur Andersen’s Office of Federal Tax Services in Washington, DC and with Deloitte & Touche. At Deloitte, he served as the head of the firm’s Mid America Transfer Pricing Practice.

Heinz-Klaus Kroppen: Heinz-Klaus is the tax leader of Deloitte in Germany and the head of Deloitte's EMEA Transfer Pricing Service Line. His work focuses exclusively on international matters, mainly cross-border transactions, acquisitions, and multinational corporations' tax issues. He has been mentioned often in the Guide to the World's Leading Tax Advisers and the Guide to the World’s Leading Transfer Pricing Advisers by the International Tax Review. He was recently appointed by the EU Commission for the third consecutive term as one of 15 business experts in Europe to the EU Joint Transfer Pricing Forum. He is a professor of international tax law in Germany.