Abigail McGregor is practice area lead for the Tax module of Lexis®PSL and head of the Tax and Private client group, who produce and maintain the content on tax and private client law in an online practical guidance product for lawyers. Prior to joining LexisNexis, she was a senior associate in the tax team at Slaughter and May, from where she had also been on secondment to the group tax department at a large investment bank. Alongside her role at LexisNexis, Abigail also sits as a fee-paid judge of the First-tier Tax Tribunal.

Ali is a leading authority on tax governance matters. He actively assists institutions with tax technical due diligence, deal structuring and tax integrity strategy development.

Ali's practice is focused on instituting robust tax practices to comply with the increasing tax transparency measures such as FATCA, CRS, and DAC6. Before Hansuke, Ali was Head of Tax at BlackRock and then International Tax Partner at Deloitte LLP.

Ali is a graduate chartered accountant, member of the Chartered Institute of Securities & Investment (CISI) and an associate member of the Association of Corporate Treasurers. Ali actively provides tax technical updates through Tolley's and LexisNexis to the financial services industry.

António Frade Correia joined EFAMA in November 2018 and is responsible for coordinating the work of EFAMA's Taxation and Accounting Standing Committee, as well as the three underlying Task Forces (Accounting TF, VAT TF, Blockchain for Taxes TF) where EFAMA members discuss tax related topics with relevance for the European Asset Management industry (EU files, OECD topics and relevant national developments with an impact on regulated EU investment funds).

António has comprehensive tax experience serving multinational companies on issues regarding taxation rules applicable in investments in Portugal and in Portuguese speaking countries. Before joining EFAMA, he worked as a  member of the Business Tax Advisory (BTA) team of Ernst & Young Portugal and from 2004 to 2016 he worked as a qualified Lawyer, advising both individuals and companies (including public entities) in Tax and Customs Law, Public Law (Public Procurement) in Portugal and Portuguese speaking countries.

Boudewijn de Bruin is the Professor of Financial Ethics in the Faculty of Philosophy at the University of Groningen. His research interests are financial ethics, moral and political philosophy, theory of knowledge, philosophy of mathematics and economics, game theory and philosophical logic. His doctoral dissertation, which was awarded a Research Prize by the Praemium Erasminianum Foundation, was on game theory and epistemic logic.

Professor De Bruin is a member of the programme committee ethics of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in the Netherlands. He has consulted to and taught executive education programmes for Achmea, Atradius, ING, PWC, the Institute of Chartered Accountants in the Netherlands, AOG School of Management, Comenius and Judge Business School.

David Remy accumulated a significant experience in M&A, restructuring, refinancing, divestment, etc. in the context of cross-border transactions. in active asset management of infrastructure assets. He has a deep understanding across a broad spectrum of diversified industries segregated by geography and sector (toll roads, airports, utilities, renewable energy, telecom, port, …). He was in charge until recently of the tax and structuring of the European platform of Macquarie Asset Management.

Dion Seymour has over 15 years’ experience working in HMRC where he has had a number of roles. He is currently a policy and technical adviser within the Financial Products and Services Team, where he leads on the development of HMRC’s approach to the taxation of cryptoassets.

Elizabeth Malagelada Prats has over 18 years of experience advising national and international financial institutions, insurance companies and asset management companies on tax matters. She advises on their daily activities, as well as on M&A and financing transactions, and corporate restructurings. She also advises on the implications of holding shares, subscribing derivatives and implementing financing transactions involving securities. She has participated in some of the most relevant asset financing transactions in Spain (mainly, vessels, R&D projects and cinematographic works).

Florence Segal joined the French Agency for Development in 2018 to work on the Group policy towards non-cooperative jurisdictions. Previously, she worked for the OECD, focusing on the BEPS Inclusive Framework and the Multilateral Convention on BEPS (MLI). She was also involved in the Amazon case whilst working at the European Commission (DG COMP). Florence has a strong background in tax policy and international relations from Sciences Po Strasbourg and the London School of Economics (LSE) with a special focus on development.

Florian Herzberg has over 20 years of experience in the asset management industry. He is an international tax lawyer and heads up a team of tax advisors responsible for ETFs and mutual funds within BlackRock’s EMEA tax group. Prior to joining BlackRock, he worked in different law firms in Berlin and subsequently took on advisory and industry roles in Luxembourg and London.

Gavin Helmer has over 25 years of financial services experience, having held senior management roles in the tax functions at UBS, Standard Bank and Barclays. Most recently Gavin served as the Global Head of Client Tax Compliance at Credit Suisse, having responsibility for compliance oversight over all aspects of the client tax risk agenda. He was also briefly a partner with PwC in Singapore. Gavin is Chartered Accountant. He is the Honorary Treasurer for SPANA, a charity for working animals.

Gavin Kan is the Head of Product Tax at M&G Prudential, the UK and European savings and investments business of Prudential Plc. Gavin joined M&G Prudential in 2014 and is responsible for leading the provision of in-house tax advisory services to the investment management business across the product lifecycle – from product development through to implementation, as well as ongoing product management and oversight of external service providers. He is also responsible for advising the business on the tax implications of investing in a range of asset classes globally and ensuring tax risks and opportunities are identified and understood.

George Turner founded TaxWatch alongside Julian Richer and Richard Brooks in 2018 and has a background working in politics and investigative journalism.

TaxWatch is a UK based charity that produces independent, public interest research in the field of tax compliance. Its work is frequently cited by leading newspapers, politicians and NGOs.

Gilles Vincent du Laurier has more than 15 years of experience in the transfer pricing area working for a ‘Big-4’ tax & law firm and as in-house financial and risk controller at a major French bank. His focus is on the planning, implementation and optimisation of transfer pricing systems, the development of license and cost allocation models, defence of transfer pricing systems in tax audits and the design of global transfer pricing documentations.

He is also involved in valuations and documentation of various types of intragroup financial transactions - e.g. loans, mezzanine, cash pooling, convertible bonds, guarantees, CDS, insurance captives, reinsurance premiums, etc. He regularly acts as an author in technical literature and he is a well-known speaker on various TP issues in international tax conferences and lecturer at HEC Business school and at Nancy Law University.

Giuliana Vieira Lima has more than 17 years of experience in Tax - Financial Service industry. Having held a large experience at PwC in the Tax Department focused on the Brazilian Financial Services Industry, she was assigned to be on a secondment at PwC NY attending Private equity clients investing in LATAM and in M&A projects for 2 years in New York City. Additionally, she was the Brazilian Manager participant of 2012 FATCA Academy in NYC working closely with Global financial institutions.

Hans-Joachim Köppen  is technical leader for digitalisation and innovative technologies at IBM and an entrepreneur. He is further committed as an ambassador for digital transformation and gives lectures at a college in Stuttgart. He drives innovation with customers based on IoT, AI, Blockchain to enable and sustain customers economic success.

Hans-Joachim has held leadership position for more than 20 years and worked in international assignments for many years. He is experienced to set up and work in networked organisations, he leads agile teams, moderated design thinking workshops and pursues knowledge work. Hans-Joachim is a committed speaker and actively contributes to an initiative for future-proof leadership.

From 2006 to 2015 Hans-Joachim led SW Architects and IT Specialists and delivered many projects to help customers in different industries to improve their business. In 1985, he joined IBM as an electronics engineer in R&D for Financial Systems.

Helen Whiteman joined the Chartered Institute of Taxation (CIOT) in September 2019 from legal regulator, CILEx Regulation role where she was CEO since 2015. She joined the Chartered Institute of Legal Executives in 2008 as Head of Corporate Affairs having served as Director of Member Services at a law firm membership body called LawNet. Helen led the Group’s Single Diversity and Accessibility Action Plan and became a volunteer trustee for the legal mental health and wellbeing charity, LawCare, in January 2019. Helen is working with the CIOT Council to develop a new strategy around delivering education, promoting standards and representing an engaged and growing membership.

Holger Sedlmaier is a German Lawyer and Head of Tax and Pensions at BVI Bundesverband Investment and Asset Management. In 2001, he started his career in the tax department of a Big Four and advised German and foreign asset managers on German regulatory and tax law.

Since 2005, he has worked for the BVI which represents the interests of the German fund industry at national and international level. BVI’s 117 members manage assets of some EUR 4 trillion for retail investors, insurance companies, pension and retirement schemes, banks, churches and foundations. With a share of 27%, Germany represents the largest fund market in the EU. Holger is responsible at the BVI for all tax matters relating to German investment funds and their investors.

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.

Jeremy Lent is an author and speaker whose work investigates the underlying causes of our civilisation’s existential crisis and explores pathways toward a life-affirming future. In addition to his books, The Patterning Instinct and The Web of Meaning, he writes topical articles exploring the deeper patterns of political and cultural developments at Patterns of Meaning. He is founder of the non-profit Liology Institute.

James (Jim) Lee serves as the Chief, Criminal Investigation at the Internal Revenue Service. In this position, he oversees a worldwide staff of approximately 3,000 employees, including 2,100 special agents in 20 Field Offices and 11 foreign countries. He leads and oversees some of the most significant investigations of financial crimes involving tax, money laundering, public corruption, cyber, ID theft, narcotics and terrorist-financing.  

Prior to this assignment, Jim’s executive positions included serving as the Deputy Chief of CI, Director of Field Operations-North, Director of Field Operations-South, Director of Strategy and Executive Special Agent in Charge of the Chicago Field Office. Jim has a Bachelor’s degree from Tiffin University.

Jonathan Pilcher is a Senior Director at FTI in London. He specialises in International Tax, UK Corporation Tax, Intellectual Property, Group tax planning and transaction structuring and Tax Due Diligence. Jonathan has been advising clients for more than 20 years. After his university education in Accounting and Finance, he became a Chartered Accountant and Chartered Tax Advisor.

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.

Judith graduated in European Business and Law from the University of Siegen, Germany.

She is actively involved in various industry associations, including the Tax Steering Committee of the Association of the Luxembourg Fund Industry (ALFI), the tax committee of the German fund association (BVI) and the EFAMA Taxation & Accounting Committee.

Julien Jarrige is an adviser to the Director and Deputy Director of the OECD’s tax policy directorate, involved in major international tax negotiations including on the tax challenges raised by digitalisation, the work on multinationals’ tax avoidance, the exchange of information for tax purposes and tax and development matters.

Co-author of the OECD’s report on Taxing Virtual Currencies, Julien was a policy advisor in the Finance track secretariat of Saudi Arabia’s G20 Presidency in 2019-2020. Teaching assistant at Sciences Po Paris’ School of Public Affairs on global economic governance and international taxation in 2018-2019 and 2020-2021, he held various positions within the OECD’s tax policy directorate since 2014, mainly in relation to the Base Erosion and Profit Shifting (BEPS) project. Prior to joining the OECD, Julien worked as an international tax consultant at Deloitte.

Katja Pussila works as a Risk Manager at the Finnish Tax Administration. She is responsible for Tax Administration's risk-based guiding and control measures on yield payments. She is an OECD TRACE Model expert with a broad background in cross-border withholding tax issues - all the way from the withholding to the relief at source and refund claims. She has been involved with the TRACE implementation from the very beginning. Katja Pussila has a Master's Degree in Law from the University of Helsinki.

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Keith Lawson has over 33 years of experience at the ICI addressing all tax matters affecting regulated funds and their investors. For the past ten years, Keith has chaired the Business Advisory Group to the OECD’s projects on Automatic Exchange of Information (AEOI) and Treaty Relief and Compliance Enhancement (TRACE).

Previously, he was a member of the OECD’s Informal Consultative Group on the taxation of Collective Investment Vehicles. Keith has chaired the Taxation Working Committee of The International Investment Funds Association (IIFA) since the Committee’s inception. Prior to joining the ICI, Keith clerked for the Chief Judge of the US Tax Court and worked for the US Senate Judiciary Committee.

Len Lipton manages GlobeTax's sales activities for the Americas. His responsibilities encompass the promotion of the company’s services to custodians and asset managers, including spearheading the firm’s business development activities to the hedge fund community. Len also participates in the firm’s product development efforts so that GlobeTax can continue to provide the highest levels of service to its clients in the rapidly changing global tax landscape.

Prior to joining GlobeTax in 2004, Len focused on new business and relationship management with Elkins/McSherry, LLC (a State Street Company) as a Managing Director, assisting institutional investors in monitoring portfolio trading costs. His experience also includes investment consulting with Ladenburg Thalmann and Co. Len is a frequent speaker at industry seminars and withholding tax educational forums.

Lisa Cristie leads on Financial Services taxation in the Corporate Tax team in HM Treasury, covering the taxation of funds, asset managers, banks and insurers, alongside securitisations and stamp duty on shares. She has had a number of tax roles in HMT and HMRC, and worked as a tax lawyer before joining the Civil Service.

Luisa Scarcella is a postdoctoral researcher engaged with topics concerning the digital economy and the use of new technologies in the area of tax law. Before joining the DigiTax Centre at the University of Antwerp (Belgium), she has worked as research and teaching assistant for the Tax and Fiscal Law Department of the University of Graz (Austria), where she has obtained a PhD in tax law with distinction in October 2020 with a dissertation on the VAT treatment of cryptocurrencies. For her research work, Luisa has been awarded prizes and fellowships by the European Association of Tax Law Professors, the Austrian Ministry of Research, and the Austrian Academy of Sciences.

Marina Lombardo is a Italian certified chartered accountant and auditor, PhD in International Law and Economics, LL.M. in International Tax Law. She advises international and Italian companies, financial institutions and investment funds on Italian and cross border corporate tax matters. She assists client to manage downsides risks and tax exposures, working for a careful planning especially when the target business has intellectual properties of significant value.

She has significant experience in advising multinational groups of companies in the optimisation of their transfer pricing policy. She assists clients I n tax audits and international tax disputes settlement procedures with particular focus on APA, MAP and Arbitration. She assists insurance companies, banks and funds in addressing the complexity and challenges inherent in their domestic and global structures.

Mary Ann Sieghart began her career as a Eurobond correspondent and Lex Columnist at the Financial Times, before moving to become Business Editor of Today newspaper. In 1988, she joined The Times, where she worked as Comment Editor, Arts Editor, Chief Political leader-writer and columnist. In 2007, she left the paper to pursue portfolio work. She remains a regular contributor to print media.

In 2008, she was a founding partner of The Browser website, a current affairs content aggregation website. In the same year she joined Newshour, the BBC World Service’s flagship news and current affairs programme, as a presenter. From 2010 to 2012, she wrote a weekly column in The Independent about politics, economics and social affairs.

Matthew Lesh A policy researcher and commentator, Matthew regularly appears on television, radio and print including on the BBC, Sky News, the Daily Telegraph, The Times, The Wall Street Journal, the Sydney Morning Herald and The Australian. He has contributed to debates on a wide array of issues including political polarisation, online speech,  emerging technologies, and market environmentalism.

Melanie Appuhn-Schneider is a Transfer Pricing Director at WTS located in Dusseldorf, Germany, focusing among others on I/C financing. Melanie joined WTS in 2016 and previously worked at Baker McKenzie for 10 years. She has been advising clients on a wide range of transfer pricing aspects for 15 years. She holds a B.A. and M.A. in Economics and is part of the visiting faculty of the Executive Program in Transfer Pricing offered by the University of Lausanne.

Melanie Levy has over 20 years of experience in private equity taxation, mergers and acquisitions and fund structuring. She is the Global Head of Tax and a member of the Valuation Committee at Global Energy Partners (EIG), a leading institutional investor with over $20 billion under management. EIG specialises in private investments in energy and energy-related infrastructure on a global basis.

Prior to joining EIG in 2014, Melanie spent 16 years as a tax consultant with PwC, where she advised clients in the alternative investments industry. Melanie also serves on the Advisory Investment Committee for Women of the World Endowment.

Paul Tang is a Member of the European Parliament for the Partij van de Arbeid (PvdA) since July 2014, as part of the Group of Socialists and Democrats. He received a PhD in Economics from the University of Amsterdam and worked for the Dutch ministry of Economic Affairs and the Bureau for Economic Policy Analysis before entering the Dutch parliament in 2007. Here, Paul Tang was spokesperson for financial and fiscal affairs from 2007 until 2010, right through the financial crisis.

In 2014, Paul Tang led the list of the PvdA for the European elections. In 2019 he was re-elected. Paul Tang mainly works on economic and financial affairs (ECON), with a focus on fair taxation and sustainable finance, and the role of data in our society (LIBE). Since September 2020, Tang is chair of the subcommittee on taxation (FISC).

Philipp Sandner has founded the Frankfurt School Blockchain Center (FSBC). From 2018 to 2021, he was ranked as one of the “top 30” economists by the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (FAZ), a major newspaper in Germany. Further, he belonged to the “Top 40 under 40” — a ranking by the German business magazine Capital. Since 2017, he has been a member of the FinTech Council of the Federal Ministry of Finance in Germany. He is also on the Board of Directors of FiveT Fintech Fund, 21e6 Capital and Blockchain Founders Group - companies active in venture capital financing for blockchain startups and crypto asset management.

The expertise of Prof. Sandner includes blockchain technology in general, crypto assets such as Bitcoin and Ethereum, decentralized finance (DeFi), the digital euro, tokenization of assets and rights and digital identity.

Sulolit "Raj" Mukherjee currently heads the Tax department at Binance.US. In this role, he oversees and manages all of the firm’s tax functions including setting internal tax policies and benchmarks and ensuring corporate tax compliance. He also serves as Binance.US' representative liaising with governing agencies on various tax issues in the virtual currency space.

Previously, Sulolit was the Global Head of Tax Information Reporting at Coinbase where he oversaw end to end tax information reporting and served as the lead tax SME focused on emerging US and global tax reporting obligations for virtual currencies. He partnered with Legal, Onboarding, Operations, Technology and Business leadership to assess risks to the firm, existing operating models, and provide guidance on enhancements and controls.

Robert Welzel is a partner and heads the Frankfurt branch of WTS Germany. For over 20 years, Robert is advising asset managers, mutual, private equity and hedge funds, investment banks, insurers, corporates, and investors like HNWI / family offices on asset management topics, capital market products, structured finance and other tax, regulatory or balance-sheet induced transactions. He represents private and institutional clients on the German tax aspects of corporate acquisitions and restructurings, including German and international mergers and acquisitions, corporate reorganisations, liquidations, and asset sales. Robert is a German qualified attorney-at-law and tax advisor.

Ronen Palan is a professor of international Political Economy at City, University of London. He wrote a number of books on the topic of offshore and tax havens including The Offshore World (Cornell University Press 2003); Tax Havens: How Globalization Really works (with Richard Murphy and Christian Chavagneux, Cornell: 2010); le Paradis Fiscaux (with Christian Chavagneux, La Decouvrte, currently 4th edition) and Sabotage: The Business of Finance (with Anastasia Nesvetailova, 2020 Penguin). He is a holder of an ERC advanced grant for the study of corporate arbitrage.

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.

Stefan Tromel co-ordinates the ILO Global Business and Disability Network. He has more than 30 years of experience working on disability rights and was actively involved in the negotiation process of the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (2002-2006).

Steffen Gnutzmann is a partner at WTS Germany.

A lawyer by education, Steffen has more than 20 years of experience in advising the international Financial Services industry on cross-border tax and regulatory topics. He focuses on investment funds, hedge funds and private equity funds, their asset managers and investors, their administrators and software providers, as well as German and foreign banks. Tax law and the digitalisation in the FS industry has been one of his main areas of interest from the start.

Stephanie Soong Johnston has a decade of experience covering international tax issues for Tax Notes. Her current beats include the OECD, the G-20, and tax issues related to an increasingly digital and globalised economy. She also holds a master’s degree in journalism from Northwestern University’s Medill School of Journalism.

Tapiwa Mashingaidze has over 20 years’ experience working in financial services. His primary focus has been on investment management where he has enjoyed several roles advising across fund product lifecycles: initial design, tax structuring, maintenance and governance. Tapiwa currently works for Alcentra, a wholly-owned subsidiary of the Bank of New York specialising in alternative credit. Here Tapiwa leads a team responsible for developing, building and supporting Alcentra’s range of investment vehicles.

Tynan Allan is wildly curious about company culture. This curiosity sparked in 2014 when he was working as an executive wellness coach and quickly figured out how the corporate world struggled to build thriving, safe, and productive workplace environments. Since then Tynan has spent his time diving deep into this topic. He has consulted companies on their culture-improvement journeys with his own firm, Illuminate, and also at Deloitte. In 2019, Tynan launched The CultureING Podcast which showcases interviews with company culture leaders, executives & HR professionals from around the world. In its first year, the podcast ranked in the Global Top 40 thanks to conversations with leaders from Disney, Thinkific, Bench Accounting, Article, Black Lives Matter, and ZayZoon. Currently, Tynan helps lead  Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion efforts, while also serving in a Client Success Role. Previously, he has provided leadership in the Client Success organizations at liveweb.io(video chat), Acuspire (recruiting platform), and Freddie (healthcare tech). There's always an open invitation to connect with Tynan Allan, discuss collaborations, and share ideas on company culture. Feel free to reach out to him on LinkedIn and have a listen to his podcast at cultureing.com.

Volker Braunberger, after his apprenticeship as a banker and subsequent studies in business administration (Dipl.- Kfm.), Mr. Braunberger began his career at Coopers & Lybrand (later PricewaterhouseCoopers Unternehmensberatung) and then took on the role of managing partner at itechx GmbH. In his career, which now spans over 25 years, he has successfully implemented numerous projects for national and international banks and asset managers. His professional focus was and still is on the "securities business" and "asset management".

In the last 3-4 years, Mr. Braunberger has used his profound technical and regulatory knowledge to investigate the application areas of new technologies for banks and asset managers and has increasingly focused on blockchain (DLT)-based technologies. Consequently, he has also manifested this focus professionally. He drove forward the foundation of INTAS.tech GmbH, which started its business operations as a subsidiary of the Frankfurt School of Finance & Management and Plutoneo Consulting GmbH in Q2-2021. In parallel, he founded the FinTech start-up "Funds On Chain GmbH" at the beginning of 2021, which is developing a platform for the DLT-based end2end handling of investment fund shares (i.e. transfer agency, registry, tax).

Wendy is the Solution Principal of tax information reporting at Sovos. Leveraging 15+ years of industry experience leading tax operations and compliance teams, she works with Sovos clients to deliver market-leading withholding and information reporting solutions.

Wendy is also a member of the Internal Revenue Service Advisory Council (IRSAC)’s Information Reporting Subgroup and advises the IRS on industry issues related to new and pending tax reporting changes impacting businesses. Wendy graduated with a B.S. in Process Engineering from Franklin University and obtained her M.B.A. from Ohio Dominican University in Columbus, Ohio.

Will Day, as Deputy Commissioner of the Australian Taxation Office, has responsibility for providing holistic solutions to counter deliberate, systemic or complex behavioural issues that pose the biggest threats to the integrity of the tax and superannuation systems. Will also leads the ATO’s efforts in protecting the tax and superannuation systems from abuse, including through tax evasion, serious financial crime and aggressive tax planning.

He is Chief of the ATO-led cross-agency Serious Financial Crime Taskforce and chair of the multi-agency Phoenix Taskforce. Will is also the Australian chief of the Joint Chiefs of Global Tax Enforcement (J5). Will’s role as Deputy Commissioner involves extensive external engagement with the public and private sectors, as well as domestic and international collaboration with a range of stakeholders, particularly in relation to tackling tax evasion and serious financial crime. Will has had an extensive and varied career in the Australian Taxation Office (ATO), spanning more than 20 years.

Will Fitzgibbon is a senior reporter with the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists. Will had led important reporting on many of ICIJ's landmark investigations, including the Panama Papers, Paradise Papers and Pandora Papers. He has written extensively on individual and corporate tax avoidance and evasion as well as corruption and bribery.

Wim Wuyts is heading WTS Global, the leading international tax (and non-audit) network represented in over 100 countries. Before Wim joined WTS Global in 2017, he was Vice President and Global Head of Tax at Bekaert. Wim also is Program Director for Executive Leadership at CEDEP, Fontainebleau. Wim is fascinated by leadership topics, change management processes and the building of the global non-audit tax firm of the future.

Wolfgang Göb is responsible for strategic and substantive questions of SDS customers with regard to the software product portfolio of SDS. He holds a PhD in physics, and since 2000, he has been working in the software industry for the financial sector. Over the past years, he has led and participated in numerous development initiatives for standard software for securities settlement, asset servicing and custody, with a focus on regulatory topics. Furthermore, Wolfgang provides his expertise within SDS regarding the implementation of new technologies in software products for the securities industry.

Yvonne is an Executive Director within IHS Markit’s Platforms & Regulatory Compliance division. She combines her roles as the EMEA Commercial Lead for Tax Products with roles which contribute to an inclusive and equitable culture within the firm. Prior to joining IHS Markit, Yvonne was with Burt, Staples & Maner, LLP and PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC). Currently, Ms. Kunihira-Davidson is a member of the OECD’s AEOI Business Advisory Group and the U.S. Digital Chamber of Commerce’s Tax Taskforce. She is a regular speaker at various industry events on QI, FATCA, and CRS in both Europe and the U.S. Yvonne is a Fellow of the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants (FCCA).

Yvonne is involved in diversity and inclusion initiatives both inside and outside of IHS Markit. She co-chairs the CEO Advisory Board on Diversity and Inclusion and the Wellbeing employee resource group (ERG), is a cofounder of two further ERGs - EMpower London (for black and minority ethnic colleagues) and Enable (for differently abled colleagues). She serves of the steering committees of three ERGs and the Collaborative Mentoring working group. In addition, she mentors young women through the IHS Markit Women In Tech and Growth Talent programs and is involved in various charitable activities. Externally, Yvonne serves as a Steering Committee member of The Network of Networks (TNOON) and supports the efforts of non-profit organizations such as SEO London, #10000BlackInterns and Migrant Leaders to nurture and recruit diverse talent.