Talks

2025

  • YIN International Fiscal Association Global Webinar
    Topic: WHT in Europe – Recent Developments
    Spoke on recent reforms and comparative developments in withholding tax across European jurisdictions, focusing on cross-border business implications.
  • Global Tax Symposium 2025, University of Münster
    Presented co-authored paper on client-attorney privilege in the context of tax transparency, examining legal and policy challenges for administrations and legal professionals.

2024

  • Tax Talks Roundtable
    Rethinking Public Finance and Development, Committee on Fiscal Studies, University of Nairobi, Kenya.
  • 7th Max Planck European Postdoctoral Conference on Tax Law
    Topic: The Use of New Technologies by Tax Administrations and the EU AI Act
    Explored risks and legal implications of advanced data extraction and analytics methods.

2023

  • Podcast: Counter Accounts – Political Economy of Global Taxation
    Hosted by Dr. Samar Riaz.
  • International Roundtable, Boston School of Law & Manchester Metropolitan University
    • Panelist: Compliance, Avoidance, and Evasion in Taxation: The Role of Professionals – The Gray Area, 8 September
    • Panelist: The Conundrums of Tax Professionals: Technology, Whistleblowing, and Ethical Decision-Making, 11 October
  • Conference on Tax Transparency and Corruption, WU Vienna
    Presentation: Misuse of Client-Attorney Privilege and the Role of Inter-Agency Cooperation, 6 July, Vienna, Austria
  • Université Jean Moulin (Lyon III) & European Law Institute
    Conference: Tax Evasion in France, Europe and Beyond
    Presentation: Navigating Grey Areas of Client-Attorney Privilege, 5 March, Lyon, France
  • IMF Joint Vienna Institute (JVI)
    Topic: Taxing Crime – A Whole-of-Government Approach, 18 January, Vienna, Austria
  • Washington Institute for Near East Policy – CFT Roundtable Series
    Topic: Taxing Crime, 25 January, Washington DC, USA
  • IBFD Staff Presentation
    Topic: Taxing Crime – A Whole-of-Government Approach, 13 April, Amsterdam, Netherlands

2022

  • Book Launch: World Bank StAR Initiative, UNODC & WU Global Tax Policy Center
    Report: Taxing Crime – A Whole-of-Government Approach, 28 November, Washington DC, USA
  • 74th IFA Congress, Berlin
    Doctoral Poster Presentation
  • EATLP Annual Congress, Vienna
    Doctoral Poster Presentation
  • Copenhagen Business School – CBS Tax Seminar 3
    Discussant: Imposing Standards: The North–South Dimension in Global Tax Politics by Dr. Martin Hearson
  • 29th Viennese Symposium on International Tax Law, WU Vienna
    Co-speaker: With Prof. Pasquale Pistone and Jürgen Romstorfer
    Topic: Art 16 OECD MC and Priority Rules in Tax Treaties, 14 June
  • Doctorate Seminar on European Tax Law, WU Vienna
    Poster presentation in collaboration with University of Leiden, Stockholm University, and Uppsala University, February 25–28
  • Lisbon International and European Tax Law Seminars
    Discussant: Natalia Pushkareva’s paper on global formulary apportionment in extractive industries, 24 February
  • IBFD DocMIT, Amsterdam
    Presentation: Beneficial Ownership Transparency in Kenya, South Africa and Nigeria, 31 January
  • Podcast: Digital Tax Revolution
    Hosted by Dr. Robert Müller LL.M – Tax Policy Implications of Central Bank Digital Currencies
  • The Economic Times, India
    Article: Get Tax Ready for Digital Money, 21 February, with Jeffrey Owens

2021

  • Conference on Tax Transparency and Corruption, WU Vienna
    Topic: Strengthening Inter-Agency Cooperation and Client-Attorney Privilege, 14–15 July
  • 28th Viennese Symposium on International Tax Law, WU Vienna
    Topic: The Notion of “Tax” under the Credit Method, 14 June
  • The Economic Times, India
    • How to Stick to Treaties, Not Tricks, 24 March, with Jeffrey Owens and Joy Waruguru Ndubai
    • Some Vexing Tax Questions, 21 June, with the same co-authors

2020

  • Conference on Tax Transparency and Corruption, WU Vienna
    Presentation: Misuse of Client-Attorney Privilege and Inter-Agency Cooperation on the IFFs Agenda, 9–10 November