The meeting place for the world's tax professionals

All of our instructors are chosen both for their talent for teaching and the wealth of professional experience they have to share with participants.

Ken Almand

Ken is a Director in Mazars and heads their London transfer pricing practice. He advises on all aspects including planning, assurance and compliance issues, working with clients to develop and implement effective strategies that are aligned with their business and tax policies. He also specialises in assisting with tax authority disputes and in thin capitalisation and related compliance issues. Ken joined Mazars from Ernst & Young's TP group and was previously a specialist in HMRC's international division. His responsibilities there included working on complex TP inquiries, litigation cases and APAs. He also negotiated numerous thin cap agreements and led the clearance team dealing with the UK anti-arbitrage legislation.

Daniel M. Berman

Daniel is Director of the Graduate Tax Program at Boston University and is a Professor of the Practice of Tax Law. An expert in international taxation, he joined BU Law after practicing law for 25 years in Washington, DC. Daniel worked in both the legislative and executive branches of the U.S. government, serving as legislation counsel to the Joint Committee on Taxation of the U.S. Congress and subsequently as deputy international tax counsel to the U.S. Department of the Treasury. He returned to private practice as a partner with Sutherland Asbill & Brennan LLP and Thelen Reid Brown Raysman & Steiner LLP, both in Washington. During the course of his career, Professor Berman has advised all manner of clients, planned transactions, drafted documents, handled and settled tax controversy matters including docketed litigation, given expert testimony, developed and drafted legislation, testified before the Senate, advised members of Congress and cabinet secretaries, negotiated treaties, and fought political battles on several continents. He received his J.D., cum laude, from Harvard Law School and his A.B., magna cum laude, from Harvard College where he majored in Applied Mathematics and Economics and was elected to Phi Beta Kappa. He has taught courses in U.S. and international tax law at the International Tax Academy of the International Bureau of Fiscal Documentation (IBFD) in Amsterdam, as an adjunct professor of law at Georgetown University Law Center, and at Harvard Law School's International Tax Program.

Adele Biggins

Adele Biggins is a Senior Manager in KPMG's Global Transfer Pricing Group based in London. She is a Chartered Tax Adviser and has specialised in transfer pricing for the last 5 years. In that time Adele has been on a number of long term secondments to some large Oil and Gas clients where she specialised in the transfer pricing implementation of intra-group services. Adele works across a range of industries including Oil and Gas, property, transport and general consumer markets. Her work has included HMRC enquiries, global documentation and planning studies and thin capitalisation work.

Laurence Delorme

Laurence Delorme is a Transfer Pricing consultant and tax lawyer, operating independently from any formal network. She started her own practice in early 2008, after 15 years with PricewaterhouseCoopers, where she was a tax partner, leader of the French TP specialisation group, and an active member of the PwC Global TP Network. She has over 20 years' experience in transfer pricing, in both professional services and within commerce and industry. Laurence has advised companies from a wide range of industries, assisting them with global and national transfer pricing strategic planning, implementation and documentation. She has significant experience in assisting clients for defence work and dispute resolution, including successful negotiations at pre-litigation stage with the French Revenue, as well as applications for Mutual Agreement Procedures and negotiations of Advanced Pricing Agreements. She is consistently ranked as one of the leading Transfer Pricing experts in France, both in French and international surveys.

Joseph Esperance

Joseph is a U.S. international tax senior manager and leader of the U.S. Tax Desk based in Milan, Italy. He provides U.S. tax advice to European multinational corporations with new or existing operations in the U.S. and co-ordinates international tax services for U.S. multinationals investing into Europe. He has a Bachelor of Science in Accounting and a Master of Science in Accounting (Taxation) from Louisiana State University. He is a Certified Public Accountant and member of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants.

Paul Fields

Paul Fields is a Chartered Accountant and a Chartered Tax Adviser. He has specialised in transfer pricing for over 10 years, working in Manchester, London and Perth, Australia and is now based in KPMG’s Reading office. In that time Paul has worked across a wide range of industries, including chemicals, automotive, retail, mining, oilfield services and software. His work has included documentation and planning studies, revenue authority defence, thin capitalisation studies and APAs.

Alan Granwell

Alan Granwell has practised in the area of international taxation for 40 years. He represents US multinational groups and US high-net-worth individuals investing or conducting business abroad, and foreign multinational groups and foreign high-net-worth individuals investing or conducting business in the United States.

In the 1980s, Alan was the International Tax Counsel and Director, Office of International Tax Affairs at the US Department of the Treasury. In that capacity, he was the senior international tax advisor at the Treasury Department and was responsible for advising the Assistant Secretary for Tax Policy on legislation, regulations, and administrative matters involving international taxation and directing the US tax treaty program.

Alan has been named one of the world's leading tax lawyers in independent studies of tax law professionals worldwide. He is admitted to the Bar in the District of Columbia, New York and at the United States Tax Court and the United States Court of Federal Claims.

Gareth Green

Gareth Green runs independent UK transfer pricing boutique, Transfer Pricing Solutions Ltd. He has extensive experience in transfer pricing, primarily in the UK, but also in the US and New Zealand. Before setting up TPSL in January 2003, Gareth was a Director in Ernst & Young's London transfer pricing group. He has comprehensively updated the transfer pricing and thin capitalisation section of Simon's UK Direct Tax Service and is Technical Editor of the BNAI Transfer Pricing Manual. He is regularly named as a Leading UK Transfer Pricing Adviser in the biannual surveys by Legal Media Group / International Tax Review.

Jim Hemelt

Jim Hemelt (JD, BS, CPA) is an adjunct professor in the Georgetown University School of Business and consults frequently on international tax matters, particularly in the area of transfer pricing documentation issues. He has spent his entire career working in the international tax area, both transactional issues as well as tax compliance and financial statement reporting issues. Most recently, he was Senior Director of Taxes for PSINet Inc. where he had responsibility for the income tax disclosure and FAS 109 implementation.

Angharad Miller

Angharad is a Senior Lecturer and Tax Route Leader at the Business School at Bournemouth University. She has a BA degree in Accounting and Finance from the University of Lancaster and is a Chartered Tax Adviser, a Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales and a Member of the Institute of Fiscal Studies. Angharad was a Corporate and Personal Tax Consultant with what is now PricewaterhouseCoopers from 1979 to 1992 and a Senior Lecturer at Manchester Metropolitan University from 1993-1996. Angharad’s main areas of interest are tax risk management, international taxation and value added tax. Her current research interest is in tax treaties, in particular the risk of the denial of treaty benefits under a limitation of benefits provision and the risk of being denied double tax relief on the grounds that a tax is not creditable. She continues to take an interest in tax education, through membership of the Education Committee of the Chartered Institute of Taxation and its PhD Grants Committee.

Peng Tao

Peng Tao is Of Counsel in DLA Piper's Tax group, based in the New York office. Prior to joining DLA Piper, he worked for two other international law firms in their Beijing and Palo Alto offices. Peng focuses his practice on PRC tax and transfer pricing, mergers and acquisitions, foreign direct investment, and general corporate and commercial issues in China. He is a frequent author and speaker on PRC tax and transfer pricing issues.

Before entering private practice, Mr. Tao worked for the Bureau of Legislative Affairs of the State Council of the People's Republic of China from 1992 to 1997. His main responsibilities were to draft and review tax and banking laws and regulations that were applicable nationwide.

Ben Terra

Prof. dr dr HC Ben J.M. Terra studied international law at the University of Amsterdam and (indirect) taxation at the University of Leiden. Ben was head of the post-graduate training in VAT, customs and excises at the Ministry of Finance in The Hague, professor of law at the University of Leiden and visiting professor at the Universities of Florida in Gainesville, of Sydney in Australia, the Gmimo University in Moscow and the Anton the Kam University in Surinam. He was head of the global indirect tax of practice of Ernst & Young until 2002.

As a consultant of the OECD and the European Commission, Ben has been involved in re-organizing tax departments, drafting law and policy and training tax officials in various countries including Indonesia, the Dutch Antilles, Aruba, the Czech Republic, the Slovak Republic, Albania, the Ukraine, the Baltic States and the CIS and Surinam.

At present Ben Terra teaches indirect tax and European tax law at the University of Amsterdam and the University of Lund in Sweden. Ben is also visiting professor at the post-academic course of the University of Vienna (Postgraduate International Tax Law, Wirtschaftsuniversität Wien).

Gwen Tigner

An Enrolled Agent, Gwen has been a tax practitioner in the US for over 30 years and a National Association of Tax Practitioners (NATP) instructor for 20 years. She is a graduate of the College of Wooster, Ohio (BA) and the University of Toledo (MA) and has studied at the University of Michigan. Gwen has extensive teaching experience including having been an adjunct professor at Lourdes College in Sylvania, Ohio as well as being an instructor for the College of Financial Planning. She currently has a tax practice in Chautauqua, New York.

Alexander Voegele

During more than 25 years advising international corporations and leading law firms on transfer pricing issues, Dr. Alexander Voegele has specialised in developing innovative economic structures for transfer pricing strategies and for the defence of major international transfer pricing cases.

Alexander has led hundreds of large transfer pricing projects and defence cases for a variety of clients in a wide range of industries, including pharmaceutical, chemical, ICE, logistics, telecommunications, automotive, oil, gas, machinery, banking, insurance, and service enterprises. His clients include many of the largest international companies.

He holds a doctorate in economics and a master of tax and business administration from the University of Mannheim. He is a certified German auditor and tax advisor and is a French Commissaire aux Comptes.

Alexander is a regular author and speaker and has received numerous awards, frequently been ranked as a leading tax and transfer pricing professional.

Dennis Weber

Dennis Weber is a Professor of European Corporate Tax Law at the University of Amsterdam (UvA) and director of the Amsterdam Centre for Tax Law (ACTL) of the UvA. As a visiting Professor, he is a lecturer in the European Tax Studies-course at the Erasmus University Rotterdam and at the International Tax Center of Leiden.

He is affiliated to Loyens & Loeff as of counsel, where he is in charge of the European tax law team.

Dennis is co-ordinator of the International and European Tax Law program of the Nederlandse Orde van Belastingadviseurs (Netherlands Association of Tax Lawyers: NOB), a board member of the NOB's European tax law section, and a member of the European Tax Law Group, an independent group of tax lawyers who focus on European tax law.