Paul Polman has been Chief Executive Officer of Unilever since 2009. Under his leadership Unilever has set out an ambitious vision to decouple its growth from overall environmental footprint and increase its positive social impact. Paul actively seeks cooperation with other companies to implement sustainable business strategies and drive systemic change. He is Chairman of the World Business…
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Rose Zheng is a tax professor at the University of International Business and Economics in Beijing. She also works for World Health Organization as a tax consultant and she is the director of the WHO Collaborating Center for Tobacco and Economics in Beijing.
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Philip J. Cook, Ph.D., is a Professor of Public Policy, Economics and Sociology at Duke University. He completed his PhD in Economics at the University of California, Berkeley, in 1973. He has extensive research interests in alcohol and tobacco control, crime prevention, firearms violence, education policy, and the causes and consequences of growing income inequality. He has served on a number of…
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George Akerlof is University Professor at the McCourt School of Public Policy of Georgetown University. In 2001 he was co-recipient of the Prize in Economic Sciences in honor of Alfred Nobel. The Nobel Committee cited Akerlof’s 1970 paper, “The Market for ‘Lemons,’” which for the first time described the role of asymmetric information in causing market perversity. Dr. Akerlof has also pioneered…
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Vanessa Houlder has worked as a journalist on the Financial Times since 1988 writing about companies, the property industry, technology, management, environment, economics and taxation. For the past decade she has written extensively about tax policy, in the UK and internationally. Awards include the LexisNexis tax writer of the year and prizes for investigative journalism from the Overseas Press…
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Bill Parks is the founding president of NRS Inc., the world’s largest seller of paddle sports accessories in the world with customers in over 80 countries. NRS is now 100% employee owned. He was a delegate to the 1986 White House Conference on Small Business Before and during his business career. Retired since 1994, he received his PhD in finance from Michigan State University and taught at the…
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El Hadji Ibrahima Diop is currently Director of Legislation and Litigation Studies, Ministry of Economy and Finance, Senegal. His previous positions include Inspector and Auditor, Senior Tax Inspection Team, Department of Tax Inspection and Investigation, and Chief of Inspection, Tax Department. Mr. Diop has a Master’s degree in Economics, Université de Dakar; postgraduate studies in taxation,…
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Rita de la Feria is a Professor and Chair of Tax Law at the University of Leeds. International Research Fellow, Centre for Business Taxation, Oxford University (2012-), and Visiting Professor, University of Lisbon (2010-). VAT Policy and Legal Advisor to the Portuguese Government (2011-2012), and VAT Legal Advisor to the Government of East Timor (2015-2016).
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Richard Rubin is the U.S. tax policy reporter for The Wall Street Journal in Washington, focusing on the intersection of taxes, politics and economics. In November he will publish a new book: Dirty Secrets - The Political Economy of Tax Havens. Before joining the Journal in 2015, he covered tax policy for Bloomberg News and Congressional Quarterly. He also wrote about local government and…
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Omri Marian is an assistant professor of law at the University of California, Irvine School of Law. He specializes in international taxation, and taxation of financial instruments. Professor Marian studied the documents leaks in the LuxLeaks scandal, and his article on the LuxLeaks documents, “The State Administration of International Tax Avoidance”, is forthcoming in the Harvard Business Law…
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