Speakers FIT 2021

Tax Justice Network

Andres Knobel

OECD Center for Tax Policy and Administration.

David Bradbury

David Bradbury is the Head of the Tax Policy and Statistics Division of the Centre for Tax Policy and Administration at the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD).

David is an Australian national and joined the OECD in April 2014, where he now leads a team of economists, lawyers and statisticians who are focused on delivering high quality economic analysis and tax policy advice, and providing internationally comparable tax data and statistical analysis.

As a member of the management team at the Centre for Tax Policy and Administration, David was a key contributor to the delivery of the OECD/G20 Base Erosion and Profit Shifting (BEPS) Project and its implementation. He has also led the OECD’s involvement with the Task Force on the Digital Economy and led the team responsible for delivering the interim report on the Tax Challenges Arising from Digitalisation to G20 Finance Ministers.

Prior to joining the OECD, David was a lawyer, a Member of the House of Representatives in the Australian Parliament, and a Minister in the Australian Government.

As a lawyer, David worked for an international corporate law firm, specialising in taxation law.

He served in the Australian Government as the Assistant Treasurer, Minister for Competition Policy and Consumer Affairs, Minister Assisting for Financial Services and Superannuation, and Minister Assisting for Deregulation.

As a Minister, David led the Australian contribution to the debate on BEPS and implemented key taxation reforms including landmark amendments to the General Anti-Avoidance Rule – Part IVA – and the modernisation of Australia’s transfer pricing laws.

David has completed an undergraduate degree in Arts (majoring in Government and Public Administration), an Honours degree in Law, and has completed post graduate studies in Taxation Law at the University of Sydney.

Latin American Strategic Center for Geopolitics – CELAG

Sergio Martin Paez

PhD in Economics from the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro and collaborator at the Latin American Strategic Center for Geopolitics (CELAG). Specialist in wealth taxation in Latin America, having published a study on the estimated collection of Tax on Great Fortunes in Latin America. ¿Cuánto podría recaudar el impuesto a las grandes fortunas en América Latina?

Argentine Political Economy Center – CEPA

Julia Strada

Director of the Argentine Political Economy Center (CEPA) and PhD in Economic Development. She has recently published a report on the panorama of the Tax on Great Fortunes in the world and its perspective for Argentina: “Impuesto a los grandes patrimonies: Propuestas en Europa y América del Sur y debate sobre proyectos en la Argentina”

OECD Center for Tax Policy and Administration

Sarah Perret

Deputy head of the Department of Tax Equity and Social Inclusion of the Center for Tax Policy and Administration of the OECD. Author of numerous studies on inheritance and wealth taxation, having organized a major report on the wealth tax situation in OECD countries in 2018: The Role and Design of Net Wealth Taxes in the OECD.

Center for Studies in Social Conflicts and Coexistence - COES (Chile)

Jorge Atria

Researcher at the Center for Studies in Social Conflicts and Coexistence (COES) and professor of sociology at Diego Portales University. PhD from the University of Freie, Berlin, with research on tax evasion in Chile. His line of research is based on economic and fiscal sociology, focusing on inequality, taxation and social structure. Co-editor of the book “Repensando Tributação na América Latina: reformas e desafios em época de incerteza”(Rethinking Taxation in Latin America: Reforms and Challenges in Times of Uncertainty

University of Buenos Aires (Argentina)

Dario Rossignolo

PhD in economics from the National University of La Plata and professor of Macroeconomics and Public Finance at the University of Buenos Aires. Researcher at the Commitment to Equity Institute, having also worked at the UN, World Bank, IDB, OECD, International Labor Organization, ECLAC and UNICEF. One of his most relevant publications was the co-authorship of a report entitled “The taxation of high incomes in Latin America”, published by ECLAC/UN

University College of London – UCL (United Kingdom)

Nestor Castaneda

Professor of Latin American Economics at the University College of London and PhD in Political Science from the University of Pittsburg. Specialist in tax policy and inequity in Latin America, including electoral and political impacts. Author of “Business Groups, Tax Efficiency, and Regressivity in Colombia”.

National University of La Plata (Argentina)

Daniel Artana

PhD in Economics from the University of California. He is chief economist at the Latin American Economic Research Foundation (FIEL) and full professor of Economic Policy at the National University of La Plata. Specialist in impact analysis of tax incentives in Latin America. Co-author of the book “La eficacia de los incentives fiscales: El caso de las zonas francas de exportación de Costa Rica, El Salvador y República Dominicana” (BID).

University of Zurich (Switzerland)

Dina Pomeranz

Professor of Economics at the University of Zurich and researcher in the field of public policy and taxation in developing countries. She holds a postdoctoral degree from the MIT Poverty Action Laboratory. Member of the International Growth Center (IGC), the European Economic Association and the Board of Directors of the International Institute of Public Finance. She has recently published the article “Challenges of Monitoring Tax Compliance by Multinational Firms: Evidence from Chile”

Inter-American Development Bank (IDB)

Alberto Barreix

Alberto Barreix, Fiscal Principal Leader at the Inter-American Bank (IADB), as leading advisor for tax policy and administration reform projects in several countries of the region. He was a lecturer on Public Finance in Open Economies at the John F. Kennedy School of Government and the Deputy Director of the Program on Revenue Forecasting at Harvard University. Previously, Mr. Barreix headed the Department of Fiscal Policy and Statistics at the Ministry of Finance (Internal Revenue Service) of Uruguay. He holds a M.P.A. and a Ph.D. from Harvard University.

Council on Economic Policies CEP (Zurich)

Agustin Redonda

Agustin Redonda is a Senior Fellow with the Council on Economic Policies (CEP) where he leads the fiscal policy program. Prior to that he has been a research and teaching assistant with the Economics Department (IdEP) of the University of Lugano (USI). He also worked with the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), as well as for the Ministry of Labour, Employment and Social Security (MTSS) in Argentina. Agustin holds a PhD in Economics from the University of Lugano, a MSc in Economics from University Paris I – Panthéon Sorbonne, a MSc in Economics from University Paris – Est Créteil, and a BA in Economics from the University of Buenos Aires (UBA).

Inter-American Center for Tax Administrations – CIAT.

Dalmiro Morán

Economist and international consultant specialized in tax and public revenue policies. Author of numerous studies on tax policy in Latin America, which have been published by organizations such as the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC), the Inter-American Center of Tax Administrations (CIAT), the International Labor Organization (ILO), among others. Postgraduate professor in courses on taxation (University of Buenos Aires) and speaker at international seminars and congresses on different aspects of the subject.

Inter-American Center for Tax Administrations – CIAT

Fernando Peláez Longinotti

Consultant expert in Tax Expenditure research

Fernando Peláez collaborates as a consultant for CIAT in various topics related to collection statistics, evasion studies and tax expenditures, as well as a teacher of the Course on Tax Estimates of this institution.

He is a Public Accountant in Uruguay, all his training was made in the national system of public education of his country. He has a Masters in Tax Administration and Public Finance from the Institute of Fiscal Studies / UNED and has directed his training towards study and research in matters related to the design and evaluation of the tax system.

He currently directs the Department of Economic-Tax Studies of the General Tax Directorate (Uruguayan tax administration). This area is in charge of the projections and monitoring of the national tax collection, the analysis of the performance, the impact examinations of the reforms or adjustments that are proposed to the system, as well as the preparation of evasion and expenditure studies, among others. In the academic field, he is a teacher in the Master’s Degree in Taxation at the University of the Oriental Republic of Uruguay, where he is responsible for the subject Design and Evaluation of Tax Systems.

Latin American Faculty of Social Sciences – FLACSO (Argentina)

Juan Pablo Jiménez

Juan Pablo Jiménez is Professor of Public Finance at the Latin American Faculty of Social Sciences (FLACSO) -Buenos Aires; Researcher and Founding Partner of the Ibero-American Association of Local Financing (AIFIL); Visiting researcher of the trAndeS Program of the Free University of Berlin.

He was Director of the Office of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) in Uruguay and coordinator of the fiscal area of ​​the Economic Development Division of ECLAC, Santiago de Chile, worked in the Ministry of Economy and in the National Congress from Argentina, in the Department of Fiscal Affairs of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) as Visiting Professor and member of the Panel of Fiscal Experts and in the School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA) of Columbia University in New York as Professor. He has been a consultant for numerous organizations including the International Monetary Fund (IMF), Inter-American Development Bank (IDB), World Bank, Inter-American Center of Tax Administrations (CIAT), UNICEF.

He is the author of numerous books, articles, and publications on issues of economic development, public economy, taxation, fiscal policy and climate change, social policies, inequality, and fiscal federalism. He holds a BA in Economics from the University of Buenos Aires, a Master’s in Public Policy from Columbia University, and a Master’s in Economics from the Di Tella Institute.

International Commission for International Corporate Taxation Reform (ICRICT)

Ricardo Martner

Ricardo Martner, Born in Santiago, Chile, is now an independent economist, after serving in the United Nations for more than 30 years. As Chief of the Fiscal Affairs Unit of CEPAL/ECLAC, he was in charge of the dissemination and discussion of the Addis Ababa Action Agenda  in Latin American and Caribbean Countries, and organized the CEPAL Fiscal Policy Seminar for 15 years.

Visiting Professor of Economics and Public Finance in many Latin American Universities,  his research interests include income distribution and other inequality issues, macroeconomics, budgeting, debt dynamics and of course tax policy and international cooperation on tax matters. He has collaborated in many United Nations reports and authored and co-authored many books and articles.

IMF Tax Affairs Department

Ricardo Fenochietto

Ricardo Fenochietto is Senior Economist of the Tax Policy Division of the Fiscal Affairs Department (IMF). He has advised more than 45 countries on a range of fiscal policy and administration issues including income taxation, international tax issues, VAT, public financial management, pension systems, excises, and natural resources taxation. Before joined the Fund was professor of Public Finance in Universidad Di Tella (Argentina) and private consultant of Multinational Organizations. He has published extensively on taxation and public finance issues; his recent works focused on tax capacity, tax effort, financial sector taxation, and taxation under COVID -19 pandemic. He is also peer reviewer for several journals of Public Finance. Mr. Fenochietto is a graduate of the University of Buenos Aires where he earned his master’s degree on Public Finance.

Director of the Economic Development Division of ECLAC

Daniel Titelman

Federal Deputy (PT-BA)

Afonso Florence

Secretary of Finance of the State of Ceará

Fernanda Macedo Pacobahyba

Federal Deputy (PCdB-RJ)

Jandira Feghali

Cedeplar/Federal University of Minas Gerais (UFMG)

Débora Freire

Doctoral Student (FEA/USP and researcher at Made/USP

Ana Bottega

O Estado de S. Paulo newspaper.

Adriana Fernandes

UOL Columnist

José Paulo Kupfer

Doctor in Economics (Unicamp)

Juliano Giassi Goularti

Doctoral Student in History (UNISINOS)

Talita Alves de Messias

Unicamp Institute of Economics

Guilherme Mello

Institute of Economics at Unicamp

Eduardo Fagnani

President of FENAFISCO

Charles Alcantara

President of Anfip

Décio Bruno Lopes

Institute for Applied Economic Research (IPEA)

Pedro Humberto Carvalho Junior

Executive Director of Oxfam Brazil

Katia Maia

Vice President of Legal Affairs at ANFIP

Maria Beatriz Fernandes Branco

Vice President of Fenafisco

Marlúcia Ferreira Paixão

Director of Interunion Affairs and Union Formation at Sinafresp

Lígia Regina Sabaraense

Vice President of Studies and Tax Affairs at ANFIP

Cesar Roxo Machado

Vice President of Sinafresp

Glauco Honório

Oxfam Brazil

Jefferson Nascimento

Public Services International - PSI

Gabriel Casnati

Director of Union Training and Interunion Relations at Fenafisco

Francelino das Chagas Valença Junior

UB School of Economics (University of Barcelona, ​​Spain)

Dirk Foremny

Journalist of the 360º Power and member of the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ)

Guilherme Waltenberg

Journalist of the 360º Power and member of the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ). Graduated in journalism from Unesp (Universidade Estadual Paulista), with specialization from ISE and the University of Navarra, in Spain. He was a guest researcher at Columbia University, USA. He was a reporter at Correio Braziliense and at Agência Estado and editor of Politics at Metrópoles

World Inequality Database

Marc Morgan

University of Massachusetts (USA)

Jayati Ghosh

Public Ministry of Justice of the State of São Paulo

Elida Graziane Pinto

Valor Econômico Newspaper

Fábio Graner

Special Secretary of the Federal Revenue of Brazil

José Barroso Tostes Neto

Director of the National Committee of State Finance Secretaries (Comsefaz)

Andre Horta

Getúlio Vargas Foundation (FGV Direito SP)

Tathiane Piscitelli

Getúlio Vargas Foundation (FGV Direito SP)

Eloisa Machado de Almeida

Independent Fiscal Institution - IFI

Vilma da Conceição Pinto

Columbia University (USA) and the Development Policy Committee of the Economic and Social Council of the United Nations

José Antonio Ocampo

Professor at Unicamp and founder of Facamp. In 2001, he was one of the greatest heterodox economists in the Biographical Dictionary of Dissenting Economists

Luiz Gonzaga de Mello Belluzzo

Chief Executive of Tax Justice Network

Alex Cobham

Doctor in Literature Theory from UFRJ

Francisco Bosco

UN Independent Expert on External Debt, Other International Financial Obligations and Human Rights

Attya Warris

Executive Director of Oxfam International

Gabriela Bucher

Chilean Association of Internal Impuestos Supervisors

Juan Apablaza

Consultant on tax policy and administration

Michael Jorratt

Massachusetts Institute of Technology -MIT (USA)

Nicholas Ashford

Communications and Campaign Coordinator

Lays Ushirobira

Lays Ushirobira is communications and campaigns coordinator for the Global Alliance for Tax Justice (GATJ). Journalist from Faculdade Cásper Líbero and Master in Communication of International Institutions from CELSA Paris-Sorbonne, he has been working for ten years in communications for development and advocacy campaigns.

Vice President of Tax Affairs at Anfip

Eucélia Maria Agrizzi Mergár

Bachelor’s Degree in Law and Accounting Sciences and Master’s Degree in Social History of Political Relations (UFES). Active Tax Auditor, in her career since 1993. State Tax Auditor in the State of Espírito Santo from 1984 to 1993. President of ANFIP/ES from 2004 to 2007. At ANFIP , from 2007 to 2018, she held the positions of Vice President of Planning and Budget Control, Executive Vice President, Vice President of Assistance Services and Vice President of Legal Affairs. Currently Vice President of Tax Affairs.

Secretary of Finance and Planning of the State of São Paulo

Henrique Meirelles