Sohrab Dastur: Sohrab Dastur is a senior advocate who has been in practice in India for over fifty 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 IFA.

Dinesh Kanabar: Dinesh is the Deputy CEO and Chairman Tax at KPMG, India. Previously, he was an Executive Director and Leader of Tax and Regulatory Practice of PricewaterhouseCoopers in India. Prior thereto, he was the founder Partner/Director of RSM/Ambit.

Satya Poddar: Satya is the partner Policy/Advisory in Ernst & Young in India and heads its indirect taxation practice.. Prior to joining E&Y in India in 2005, he was with the firm in Toronto since 1987. Before that he worked on GST issues and tax reforms with Canadian government.

Nishith Desai: Nishith is the founder of Nishith Desai Associates, a research-based law firm. He is an international tax and corporate lawyer, researcher, author and lecturer. Nishith Desai has been voted "External Counsel of the Year 2009" by Asian Counsel and Pacific Business Press and the "Most In Demand Practitioners" by Chambers Asia 2009.

Ketan Dalal: Ketan is the Joint Head, Tax & Regulatory Services with PricewaterhouseCoopers in India and also a member of the India Leadership Team. Recently, International Tax Review listed him among India's leading tax advisors. In 1997, he helped set up RSM & Co., now merged into PwC.

Kiran Umrootkar: Kiran is currently the Director - Finance of Jacobs Engineering India Pvt. Ltd., an Indian subsidiary of a US multinational corporation engaged in engineering consultancy services. Previously, he worked as a banker with Standard Chartered Bank for 26 years and retired as Head of Treasury. Kiran is a Trustee of the Foundation for International Taxation since its inception.

Mukesh Butani: Mukesh is the Managing Partner and Tax practice leader of BMR Legal. Mukesh was the Tax practice leader at Big 4 firms until August 2004. He is member of OECD's Business Restructuring & Advisory Group and vice-chairman of ICC Paris Taxation Commission. He was recently nominated member of the IFA Permanent Scientific Committee.

Pranav Sayta: Pranav is a Partner in Ernst & Young, India and the national leader of the Tax practice for the Technology, Communication, Entertainment & Services sector. Pranavis a member of the Executive Committee of the IFA India Branch and a member of the Managing Committee of the Western Region Chapter of IFA India.

M. Lakshminarayanan: Laks is the National Leader, Tax & Regulatory Services, Deloitte Haskins & Sells in India. He specializes in serving multinational companies, both in setting them up and dealing with a wide range of their international tax issues. Laks also has hands-on experience in mergers, acquisitions and restructuring of companies.

Uday Ved: Uday is the Executive Director and Head of Tax - KPMG India. Uday specializes in international tax, transfer pricing, foreign investment consulting and exchange control regulations. Prior to joining the firm, Uday was partner and Head of tax in RSM & Co. in India. Prior to RSM, Uday was a Senior Tax Partner in Arthur Andersen, India.

Caroline Silberztein: Caroline is a partner in the international law firm of Baker & McKenzie, France. Prior to September this year she was the Head of the Transfer Pricing Unit in the OECD Centre for Tax Policy and Administration. She was the Secretariat to Working Party No. 6 of the Committee on Fiscal Affairs which researches taxation of multinational enterprises and transfer pricing.

Shyamal Mukherjee: Shyamal is the Joint Head of Tax at PricewaterhouseCoopers, India. He also leads the India Transfer Pricing (TP) practice of PwC. He is on the Board of Editors of the Asia Pacific Tax Bulletin published by the International Bureau of Fiscal Documentation (IBFD).

T. P. Ostwal: T.P. Ostwal is the senior partner of the firm of T.P. Ostwal & Associates in India. He is the ex-Chairman of International Fiscal Association-India Branch, and vice president of the global Executive Committee of IFA. He is also a member of the Expert Group of the UN on Transfer Pricing for Developing Countries.

Sunil Gupta & Ashutosh Dikshit: Sunil and Ashutosh are Joint Secretaries for Tax Policy and Legislation (Direct Taxes) at the Central Board of Direct Taxes, Ministry of Finance, India. They are currently members of the DTC Task Force responsible for the drafting and implementation of the new Tax Code.

R. N. Dash: R. N. Dash is the Director General of International Taxation, India.

Shefali Goradia: Shefali Goradia is an experienced corporate tax partner at BMR Advisors.

Akil Hirani: Akil Hirani is managing partner of an old established law firm, Majmudar & Co., in India.

Nihar Jambusaria: Nihar Jambusaria is Sr. Vice President (Taxation) of Reliance Industries Ltd. in India.

Dev Joory: Dev Joory is Director at International Financial Services, Mauritius.

Shanker Iyer: Shanker is the founder and chairman of The Iyer Practice, an accountancy and business consulting firm in Singapore. He is the chairman of the Singapore International Chamber of Commerce (SICC) and the International Fiscal Association, Singapore Branch.

Stephen W. Bowman: Stephen is the Toronto Managing Partner of Bennett Jones LLP, a leading tax and law firm in Canada. He is a Council member of the International Fiscal Association in Canada. Stephen has been a recipient of the Canadian Tax Foundation's Distinguished Writing Award.

Veerinderjeet Singh: Veerinderjeet is the managing director of Taxand Malaysia Sdn. Bhd. Over the years he has served with the Malaysian Inland Revenue Department, has been a tax partner in international accounting firms and been a Professor in Taxation in the University of Malaya.

Girish Vanvari: Girish is an executive director in KPMG in India. He heads the mergers and acquisitions practice.

Natascha Scholten: Natascha is a Commercial Director based in TMF Group's London office, and a Member of the India Focus Group which assists Indian inbound and outbound investors. She has wide experience in international structuring working with Equity Trust (now merged with TMF Group).

Rajeev Dimri: Rajeev heads the Indirect Taxes practice with BMR Advisors in India. He has extensive experience advising multinational and domestic companies on VAT impact assessment and service tax issues. In recent year, he has been involved extensively on GST related matters in India.

Chris Needham: Chris is the Global VAT/GST Director at General Electric based in the United Kingdom. He heads their worldwide team on indirect tax compliance management. Previously, he was VAT inspector in the United Kingdom and also worked as VAT Consultant with PwC.

Piet Vandendriessche: Piet is the Global Indirect Tax Leader within Deloitte and Tax Managing Partner of Deloitte in Belgium. He has broad experience in indirect tax aspects of a wide range of domestic and global tax systems. Piet has written many articles and authored several books on VAT.

Chris Needham: Chris is the Global VAT/GST Director at General Electric based in the United Kingdom. He heads their worldwide team on indirect tax compliance management. Previously, he was VAT inspector in the United Kingdom and also worked as VAT Consultant with PwC. Bela Sheth-Mao: Shell, India and senior central & state government officials involved in indirect tax matters in India.

Reuven Avi-Yonah: Reuven is the Irwin I. Cohn Professor of Law and director of the International Tax LL.M. Program in University of Michigan Law School in the United States. As one of the leading tax academics globally, he has served as consultant to the U.S. Treasury and to the OECD on tax competition, and given his views often on various international tax issues.

Harry L. "Hank" Gutman: Hank is a former chief of staff for the Joint Committee on Taxation, who currently heads the Federal Tax Legislative and Regulatory Services (LRS) group at Washington National Tax and is the Director of the KPMG Tax Governance Institute (TGI). Prior to 1993, Hank was a member of several US government committees concerning revenue aspects of tax legislation.

Philippe Martin: Philippe is a judge of the French Conseil d'Etat (French Supreme Administrative Court) since 1981. He was attached as Constitutional Law adviser in the Prime Minister's office (1989-1992), and a part-time professor in taxation at the Universities of Paris 12 (1993-2004) and Paris 2.

Brian Cleave: Brian is a member of the English Bar and an honorary Queen's Counsel. He worked for 32 years with the Inland Revenue and retired as Solicitor of Inland Revenue. He has served as a senior consultant on tax reform projects in eastern Europe.

Stef van Weeghel: Stef is a professor of international tax law at the University of Amsterdam and a tax partner with PricewaterhouseCoopers in the Netherlands. He is currently the president of the Dutch IFA Branch and a member of IFA's Permanent Scientific Committee.

Luc De Broe: Luc is a partner with Laga (a law firm affiliated to Deloitte) in Belgium. Since 2007, he is a Professor of Tax Law at the Katholieke Universiteit in Leuven. He has a doctor's degree at this university on "International tax planning and prevention of abuse under domestic tax law, tax treaties".

Sanjay K. Mishra: Sanj ay is presently joint secretary (Foreign Tax & Tax Research) in the Ministry of Finance, Government of India and acts as the competent authority for India on treaty matters.

Michael Lennard: Michael is the Chief, International Tax Cooperation and Trade in the Financing for Development Office of the United Nations. His work focuses on ensuring the fairness and workability of international tax rules of developing countries, and encouraging improvements in their tax systems and administrations to achieve sustained development. Previously he was a Tax Treaty Advisor in the OECD in Paris and had worked at the Australian Tax Office.

Carol Dunahoo: Carol is a Washington-based partner with international law firm of Baker & McKenzie. She specializes in cross-border dispute resolution and is involved in both UN and OECD treaty policy development. In early 2000s, Carol was U.S. Competent Authority and IRS Director, International.

T. P. Ostwal: T.P. Ostwal is the senior partner of the firm of T.P. Ostwal & Associates in India. He is the ex-Chairman of International Fiscal Association-India Branch, and vice president of the global Executive Committee of IFA. He is also a member of the Expert Group of the UN on Transfer Pricing for Developing Countries.

Toshio Miyatake: Toshio is an attorney-at-law and a partner of Adachi, Henderson, Miyatake & Fujita in Tokyo, Japan. He has taught Japanese international taxation at the Harvard Law School as a visiting professor in 1983, and international tax at two Japanese universities. His writings include the textbook Kokusai Sozei Ho (International Tax Law) in Japanese and various tax articles in Japanese and English.

Nordine Bensouda: Nordine is the General Treasurer for the Kingdom of Morocco. During his career, he has been the General Director of Tax Administration and Chief of the Cabinet for the Ministry of Finance. From 2005-2009, he chaired the UN Committee of Experts on International Cooperation in Tax Matters and was a member of the IFA Permanent Scientific Committee.

Philippe Malherbe: Philippe is the senior partner of the law firm of Liedekerke in Brussels. His practice encompasses tax and corporate aspects of M&A and tax and corporate litigation. He is also a professor at two leading universities in Europe and co-author of the Belgian textbook on company law and a recent book on tax amnesties.

Miguel Valdes: Miguel is a partner of the law firm "Valdes, Machado & Associates", in Chicago, Illinois. He specializes in Latin America and Caribbean tax matters with special emphasis on Brazilian transactions. Before 2003, he was the National Director of the Latin American Business Center with Ernst & Young.

Kyung Geun Lee: Kyung leads the international tax team at Yulchon, a leading law firm in Korea. He is a former Director of the International Tax Division and the Corporate Income Tax Division of the Korean Ministry of Strategy and Finance. During 2005-2009, he served, as Vice Chair, the UN Tax Expert Committee. Currently, he participates in its Transfer Pricing Subcommittee.

Kaushik "Kim" Desai: Kim is a principal in Chown Dewhurst LLP, a professional firm in the United Kingdom. He specialises in personal and corporate tax structures involving international tax of multinational companies using UK as a holding company base.

Caroline Silberztein: Caroline is a partner in the international law firm of Baker & McKenzie, France. Prior to September this year she was the Head of the Transfer Pricing Unit in the OECD Centre for Tax Policy and Administration. She was the Secretariat to Working Party No. 6 of the Committee on Fiscal Affairs which researches taxation of multinational enterprises and transfer pricing.

Shanto Ghosh: Shanto is a transfer pricing Senior Director and Principal Economist with Deloitte in India. He has several years of transfer pricing litigation experience in the US as well as in India. Shanto is a teaching fellow at the Harvard Institute of International Development and a lecturer on financial and development economics at the University of California, Berkeley.

Marc Levey: Marc is a partner in the New York office of Baker & McKenzie with specialization in structuring and defending transfer pricing strategies. He previously served as Tax Attorney with the National Office of the Paris. She has wide experience in the determination of arm's length prices and the negotiation of transfer pricing cases with foreign tax authorities.

Michelle Levac: Michelle is the Transfer Pricing Specialist at the Canada Revenue Agency and the Chair of Working Party No. 6 (which deals with the taxation of multinational enterprises) at the OECD in lecturer on financial and development economics at the University of California, Berkeley.

Monique van Herksen: Monique is Ernst & Young's Global Head of Transfer Pricing Controversy and EMEIA Head of Tax Controversy, specializing in Mutual Agreement Procedures and Arbitration. She is a member of the UN Transfer Pricing-Practical Issues Subcommittee that deals with transfer pricing in Developing Countries.

Toshio Miyatake: Toshio is an attorney-at-law and a partner of Adachi, Henderson, Miyatake & Fujita in Tokyo, Japan. He has taught Japanese international taxation at the Harvard Law School as a visiting professor in 1983, and international tax at two Japanese universities. His writings include the textbook Kokusai Sozei Ho (International Tax Law) in Japanese and various tax articles in Japanese and English.

Rashmi Saksena Sahni: Rashmi is a senior Commissioner of Income Tax with special responsibility for transfer pricing and the proposed advance pricing agreement programme in India.

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