The Treaties Explorer: New Data for Better Negotiation

SPEAKERS’ BIOS

Ms. Ana Cebreiro, Senior Economist, World Bank.  Ana Cebreiro is a Senior Economist in the Global Tax Team anchored at the Fiscal Policy and Sustainable Growth Unit of the Macroeconomies, Trade and Investment Global Practice at the World Bank. Currently Ana is leading the international tax work at the World Bank (WB), including the tax transparency agenda, at the global level. Since she joined the WB in 2013, she has been implementing technical assistance tax projects and supporting lending operations covering both tax policy and administration. She has more than 25 years of expertise in the tax area. Before joining the WB, she worked for 9 years in the OECD (Paris), at the Centre for Tax Policy and Administration. Previously, she held positions as an economic consultant in DotEcon Economic Consulting and a research economist for the HM Revenue and Customs (HRMC) in the United Kingdom. Ana is from Spain and holds a PhD and MA in Economics from the University of Essex in the United Kingdom, and an MA in Applied Public Economics for the Universidad Autonoma de Barcelona.

Dr. Martin Hearson, Research Fellow, International Center for Tax and Development (ICTD). Martin Hearson is a Research Fellow at the Institute of Development Studies, where he is International Tax Program Lead for the International Centre for Tax and Development (ICTD). His research focuses on the politics of international business taxation, and in particular the relationship between developed and developing countries. Before joining ICTD, Martin was a fellow in international political economy at the London School of Economics and Political Science, and before that he spent a decade working in the charity sector. He is the author of “Imposing Standards: The North-South Dimension to Global Tax Politics,” published by Cornell University Press.

Ashima Neb, DRM Specialist, Platform for Collaboration on Tax (PCT), World Bank. Ashima Neb is a Domestic Resource Mobilization Specialist with the Platform for the Collaboration on Tax (PCT) Secretariat. She was formerly the Additional Commissioner of Income Tax at the Indian Revenue Service, where she has over twenty years of experience.

Lucas Millán-Narotzky, Lawyer and Senior Researcher, Tax Justice Network. Lucas Millán-Narotzky is a lawyer and senior researcher in financial secrecy and corporate taxation at the Tax Justice Network. He has completed Bachelor’s degrees at Pierre et Marie Curie and Panthéon-Assas universities, followed by Master’s degrees at Paris-Sorbonne and Boston universities, specialising in international taxation.

Dr. Tatiana Falcao, Policy Expert Consultant, World Bank & African Tax Administration Forum. Dr. Tatiana Falcao is a policy expert in international tax and environmental taxation, providing expert consultancy services to the World Bank and ATAF. She is the Coordinator for Helsinki Principle 3 (carbon pricing), at the Coalition of Finance Ministers for Climate Action. Tatiana was previously with the UN Environment Program and UN DESA, overseeing the work of the Committee of Experts in International Cooperation in Tax Matters.

Ms. Marine Khurtsidze is the Head of Tax and Customs Policy Department at the Ministry of Finance of Georgia since 2021. She oversees formation of tax and customs policy, including international tax policy of Georgia. Ms. Khurtsidze is an Elected Chair of the Conference of the Parties to the Multilateral Convention to Implement Tax Treaty Related Measures to Prevent Base Erosion and Profit Shifting (MLI) at OECD.  She has been supervising of the implementation of four minimum standards of Base Erosion and Profit Shifting Project (OECD) in Georgia and has been playing the role of the country representative at OECD to the following groups: WP 1 and ad-hoc group on the development of Multinational Instrument, Forum of Harmful Tax Practice and at the Bureau of this Forum, FTA MAP Forum and Steering Group of this Forum, Joint WP 6 – WP 10 Group on Country-by-Country Reporting and WP 2 on Tax Policy Analysis and Tax Statistics.