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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Elise Bean was first hired by Senator Carl Levin (D-MI) in 1985, to serve as an attorney on the U.S. Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee. In 2003, Senator Levin appointed her staff director and chief counsel of the Committee’s Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations, which he chaired. Ms. Bean handled a variety of complex investigations, hearings, and legislation,…
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Brigitte Alepin is a Canadian businesswoman, a Harvard trained tax specialist and tax policy advisor. She has led major research projects for governments, Fortune 500 corporations and NGOs, in various fields including environmental and post-Kyoto negotiations, oil and gas taxation and health care. She has also taught courses in tax and tax policies in Canadian universities. Her written work…
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Carl Levin is Michigan's longest-serving U.S. senator (Jan. 3, 1979, to Jan. 3, 2015). He is chair of the Levin Center at Wayne Law and serves as the Law School’s distinguished legislator in residence, co-teaching courses on various subjects, including tax law and policy and legislative process and oversight. In addition, he is senior counsel to Honigman Miller Schwartz and Cohn LLP. During his…
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Jeremias N. Paul, Jr. is a seasoned government official, having held various positions in the Department of Finance since 1990. In more than two decades now, he has practically done the rounds of all the units in the Department, including being Assistant Secretary of the International Finance Group and being Undersecretary of the Corporate Affairs Group. In 2005-2006, he served as Alternate…
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Sonja Hunter is the Chief Executive Officer of the Samoa Tourism Authority and the Chairperson of the South Pacific Tourism Organisation. She has a Master in Business Administration from the University of the South Pacific and is a graduate of the Rhema Bible Training Centre, South Pacific. Sonja Hunter has been working in Travel and Tourism for more than 25 years.
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