First Global Conference of the Platform for Collaboration on Tax - Taxation and the Sustainable Development Goals 2017 | The World Bank | 14 February 2018 | United Nations Headquarters, New York, NY 10017, US

The members of the Platform for Collaboration on Tax - United Nations, International Monetary Fund, Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), World Bank Group - will hold their first Global Conference on February 14-16, 2018 at the UN Headquarters in New York, under the theme “Taxation and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)”. The conference will use as an input the work developed by Platform members, both jointly and separately, in connection with the themes covered in the conference. This first Global Conference of the Platform aims to:

(a) take forward the global dialogue on the role of tax in achieving the SDGs among senior policy makers and tax administrators from developing and advanced countries;

(b) obtain country insights and viewpoints on the challenges and opportunities countries see in using their tax systems to help achieve the SDGs. This would inform the future work of the members of the Platform, and possibly others active in the area, on how best to design support for countries to improve their tax systems.
The conference will consist of plenary and parallel sessions. There will be five plenary sessions, including an opening and closing session on the link between taxation and SDGs. Various parallel sessions will explore more in detail the linkages between taxation and the SDG.

The sessions will be structured around five thematic areas:
i) domestic resource mobilization and the state;
ii) the role of tax in supporting sustainable economic growth, investment and trade;
iii) tax and the social dimension-addressing poverty, inequality and health;
iv) capacity development;
v) tax cooperation the SDGs.

2018 Speakers

Mr. David Wessel
Economic Journalist

Mr. John Connors
Group Tax Director, Vodafone

Mr. Jeffrey Sachs
Director of the Center for Sustainable Development, Columbia University

Ms. Elfrieda Stewart Tamba
Commissioner General, Liberian Revenue Authority, and co-chair ATI Steering Committee

Mr. Masaaki Kaizuka
Executive Director for Japan, IMF

Mr. Vitor Gaspar
Director, Fiscal Affairs Department, IMF

Ms. Winifred Byanyima
Executive Director, Oxfam International

Mr. William Morris
Chair, Tax Committee, BIAC

Mr. Jun Wang
Commissioner, State Administration of Taxation, China

Mr. Jan Walliser
Vice President, Equitable Growth, Finance, and Institutions, WB

Mr. Augusto de la Torre
Adjunct Professor of International and Public Affairs, Columbia University

Mr. Arbind Modi
Head of Tax Policy Research Unit, Ministry of Finance, India

Ms. Dana Reizniece-Ozola
Minister of Finance, Latvia

Ms. Victoria Perry
Assistant Director, Fiscal Affairs Department, IMF

Mr. Philip Daniel
Fiscal Expert on natural resources, University of Dundee

Mr. Matthew Landy
Vice President, Head of International Tax, Statoil

Mr. Thomas Lassourd
Senior Economic Analyst, Natural Resource Governance Institute

Debbie Wetzel
Senior Director, Governance Global Practice, World Bank

Ms. Aisha Ghaus Pasha
Punjab Finance Minister, Pakistan

Ms. Jalia Kangave
Capacity Building Manager, ICTD

Ms. Janet Stotsky
Economist in Residence, American University

Mr. Michael Keen
Deputy Director, Fiscal Affairs Department, IMF

Mr. Peter Larose
Ministry of Finance, Trade and Economic Planning, Seychelles

Mr. Rodrigo Pizarro
Head of the Division of Information and Environmental Economics, Chile

Mr. Rodrigo Pizarro
Head of the Division of Information and Environmental Economics, Chile

Mr. John Moffet
Acting Associate ADM, Environmental and Climate Change, Canada

Mr. Benjamin Delozier
Assistant Head for Public Policies, Treasury, France

Mr. Juan Toro
Assistant Director, Fiscal Affairs Department, IMF

Mr. Hans Christian Holte
Commissioner, Norwegian Tax Administration/ Chair of the FTA

Mr. Tusabe Richard
Commissioner General, Rwanda Revenue Authority

Mr. Víctor Paul Shiguiyama Kobashigawa
National Superintendent, Peru Revenue Authority

Mr. Georgi Tabuashvili
Commissioner General, Georgia Revenue Service

Mr. Pascal Saint-Amans
Director, Center for Tax Policy and Administration, OECD

Mr. Amadou Ba
Minister of Finance, Deputy Chair of Inclusive Framework

Ms. Allison Christians
Professor, McGill University

Ms. Janine Juggins
Executive Vice President Global Tax, Unilever

Mr. Alvin Mosioma
Executive Director, Tax Justice Network Africa

Mr. James Brumby
Director, Governance Global Practice

Mr. Niels Hald
Secretary General, Danish Brewers Association

Mr. Norbert Izer
Deputy State Secretary for Taxation, Ministry for National Economy, Hungary

Mr. Dean Jamison
Professor Emeritus, University of California

Ms. Grace Pérez-Navarro
Deputy Director of CTPA, OECD

Ms. Folakemi Adeosun
Minister of Finance, Nigeria

Ms. Maya Forstater
Visiting Fellow, Center for Global Development

Ms. Maria José Garde
Chair, Global Forum on Transparency and EOI for Tax Purposes

Ms. Ping Liu
Director of Tariff and Trade Affairs, World Customs Organization

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

Ms. Mary Baine
Head, International Taxation & Technical Assistance, African Tax Administration Forum

Mr. František Imrecze
Head of the Slovak Financial Administration, President of IOTA

Ms. Ioana Petrescu
Expert, SNSPA

Ms. Ingrid Woolard
Chair, Davis Tax Committee, South Africa

Jan Walliser
Vice President, Equitable Growth, Finance, and Institutions, WB

Ms. Isabel de Saint Malo de Alvarado
Vice President and Ministers of Foregn Affairs, Panama

Mr. Ludovico Feoli
Director, Center for Inter-American Policy and Research, Tulane University

Mr. Regis Immongault Tatagani
Minister of Economy, Gabon

Ms. Marcela Meléndez
Director, ECONOESTUDIO

Mr. Alexander Trepelkov
Director, Financing for Development Office, UN

Mr. Amr El-Garhy
Minister of Finance, Egypt

Mr. Karl Fickenscher
Deputy Assistant Administrator, Bureau for Economic Growth, Education and Environment, USAID

Mr. Marcio Verdi
Executive Secretary, Inter-American Center for Tax Administrations

2018 Partners

• Onchocerciasis Control Program (OCP)
• Global Alliance for Vaccines and Immunization (GAVI)
• Consultative Group for International Agricultural Research (CGIAR)
• The Carbon Fund
• Global Environment Facility (GEF)
• Roll Back Malaria
• Consultative Group to Assist the Poor (CGAP)
• Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS
• Financial Sector Reform and Strengthening Initiative (FIRST)
• Education for All
• Global Water Partnership (GWP)
• infoDev
• Global Development Learning Network (GDLN)
• Haiti Reconstruction Fund (HRF)
• Harmonization for Health in Africa (HHA)
• Stolen Asset Recovery Initiative (StAR)
• Water and Sanitation Program (WSP)
• Global Partnership on Output-Based Aid (GPOBA)