ECOSOC Special Meeting on International Cooperation in Tax Matters 2019 | United Nations | 29 April 2019 | ECOSOC Chamber, United Nations Headquarters, NY, 10017 New York, USA

The 2019 ECOSOC special meeting will provide opportunity to address emerging issues of tax policy and administration related to (i) digitalization of the economy, (ii) taxation and environmental protection, and (iii) taxation and inequality. The meeting takes the form of a dialogue among the Council, members of its expert body on tax matters, senior representatives of national tax authorities, relevant international organizations, civil society and academia. Special efforts will be made to relate the technical nature of the expert work to the broader policy concerns of the Council and others in supporting efforts at all levels to achieve sustainable development.

Participants will contribute to enhancing the impact of expert and intergovernmentally-driven UN policy guidance on tax matters, at the global, regional, national and subnational levels.

2019 Speakers

PANELISTS:

Her Excellency Inga Rhonda King
Seventy-Fourth President of the Economic and Social Council

Mr. Elliott Harris
United Nations Assistant Secretary-General for Economic Development and Chief Economist

Ms. Kosha Gada
Senior management at the world’s premier corporations

Mr. Eric Nii Yarboi Mensah
Assistant Commissioner in charge of Legal Affairs and International Taxation Agreements at the Ghana Revenue Authority

Mr. Carlos Protto
Director of International Tax Relations, Ministry of Treasury, Argentina

Ms. Marilou Uy
Director of the Secretariat of the Intergovernmental Group of Twenty-Four on International Monetary Affairs and Development (G-24)

Mr. Brian Jenn
Deputy International Tax Counsel at the United States Department of the Treasury

Mr. Irving Aw
Counsel (Tax Law) in the IMF’s Legal Department

Ms. Janet Milne
Professor of Law and Director of the Environmental Tax Policy Institute at Vermont Law School, USA

Ms. Natalia Aristizabal Mora
Consultant for the World Bank, the UN, and the IMF

Mr. Rodrigo Pizarro
Economist from the London School of Economics and holds a PhD from Stanford University

Mr. Kurt Van Dender
Head of the Tax and Environment Unit at the OECD’s Centre for Tax Policy and Administration

Mr. Gervais Coulombe
Currently the Senior Director of Excise at the Department of Finance Canada

Mr. Wilson Prichard
Associate Professor of Global Affairs and Political Science at the University of Toronto

Ms. Elfrieda Stewart Tamba
Member of the United Nations Committee of Experts on International Cooperation in Tax Matters

Mr. Ricardo Fuentes Nieva
Executive Director of Oxfam Mexico

Mr. Alvin Mosioma
Founding Executive Director of Tax Justice Network Africa