Jonathan Schwarz is a barrister at Temple Tax Chambers. Jonathan is an English, Irish and Canadian Barrister and a South African Advocate. His practice focuses on international tax disputes as counsel and as an expert and advises on solving cross-border tax problems. He is a visiting Professor at King’s College London and author of Schwarz on Tax Treaties 6th Ed and Booth and Schwarz: Residence, Domicile and UK Taxation 20th Ed among other publications.

Ruud De Mooij is an advisor in the International Monetary Fund’s Fiscal Affairs Department, where he previously headed the Tax Policy Division. He has extensive experience in providing capacity development on tax policy issues in over 25 countries, including on medium-term revenue strategies. Before joining the International Monetary Fund, De Mooij was a Professor of Public Economics at Erasmus University in Rotterdam.

He has published extensively on tax issues, including in the American Economic Review and the Journal of Public Economics. De Mooij is also a research fellow at the University of Oxford, the University of Bergen, ZEW in Mannheim, and member of the CESifo network in Munich.

Irem Guceri is Associate Professor of Economics and Public Policy at the Blavatnik School of Government and Governing Body Fellow of St Antony’s College. Irem is also an affiliate of the Oxford University Centre for Business Taxation, and of the CESifo Network in Public Economics. In her research, Irem studies the ways in which government policies can promote growth and productivity, as well as issues surrounding efficient policymaking in the field of taxation.

Irem received her MPhil and DPhil degrees in Economics from Oxford University, after having obtained a BA in Economics from Koc University and an MSc in Economics from the London School of Economics.  Prior to her time at Oxford, Irem worked at the World Bank as part of the Europe and Central Asia region, Financial and Private Sector Development unit as an economist.