Chairs & Presenters

Program Chairs

Layla Asali

Member
Miller & Chevalier

Peter Blessing

Associate Chief Counsel (International)
Internal Revenue Service

Itai Grinberg

Carmack Waterhouse Professor of International Economic Law
Georgetown Law

Nicole Welch

Director, Treaty, Transfer Pricing & Cross Border Activities
Internal Revenue Service
Session Chair

Rafic Barrage

Partner
Baker & McKenzie LLP

John Bates

Principal, Washington National Tax
Deloitte

Beth Bell

Principal
PwC

Michael Caballero

Partner
Covington and Burling LLP

Michael Desmond

Member & Chair, Tax
Miller & Chevalier

Quyen Huynh

Principal, Washington National Tax - International
KPMG LLP

Mary Monahan

Partner
Eversheds Sutherland

Bill Morgan

Managing Director, International Tax and Transactions
Ernst & Young LLP

Christopher Rizek

Partner
Holland & Knight

Eric Sensenbrenner

Partner, Tax
Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP
Speakers

Azeka Abramoff

Legislation Counsel
Joint Committee on Taxation

Nita Asher

Principal, International Tax Services
PwC

Christopher Bello

Attorney-Advisor, Office of Tax Policy
U.S. Department of the Treasury

Amie Colwell Breslow

Of Counsel
Jones Day

Robert Chase

Co-Head of Global Tax
Eversheds Sutherland

Josiah Child

Member
Caplin & Drysdale

Manal Corwin

Director
OECD Centre for Tax Policy and Administration

Paul Crispino

Attorney Advisor, Office of Tax Policy
U.S. Department of the Treasury

Tadd Fowler

Senior Vice President, Treasurer & Global Taxes
Procter & Gamble
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Abigail Friedman

Partner
Latham & Watkins LLP

Jonathan Galin

Attorney Advisor, Office of Tax Policy
U.S. Department of the Treasury

Jan Geht

Special Counsel
IRS Office of Associate Chief Counsel (International)

Lucas Giardelli

Partner, Co-leader of International Tax & Transfer Pricing
Mayer Brown

Andrew Gordon

Special Counsel
IRS Office of Associate Chief Counsel (International)

Lori Hellkamp

Partner
Jones Day

Dave Hubbert

Senior Fellow
The Tax Law Center at NYU Law

Jennifer Karlin

Tax Counsel
IRS Office of Chief Counsel (International)

Zeb Kelley

Branch Chief
IRS Office of Chief Counsel (International)

Kathryn Kelly

Partner
Gibson Dunn

Rachel Kleinberg

Partner
Gibson Dunn

Scott Levine

Partner
Baker & McKenzie LLP

Sonal Majmudar

Partner
Mayer Brown
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Dan McCall

Principal, Washington National Tax - International Tax
Deloitte

Mallory Mendrala

Deputy Associate Chief Counsel
IRS Office of Chief Counsel
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John Merrick

Senior Level Counsel
IRS Office of Associate Chief Counsel (International)
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Anna Moss

Attorney-Advisor, Office of Tax Policy
U.S. Department of the Treasury

Erika Nijenhuis

Senior Counsel
U.S. Department of the Treasury

Jorge Oben-Cuadros

Partner
Procopio

Joshua Odintz

Partner
Holland & Knight

Kevin Otero

Partner
Covington and Burling LLP

Michael Plowgian

Principal
KPMG LLP

Joshua Rabon

Counsel, Tax
Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP

Diane Ring

Marianne D. Short and Ray Skowyra Professor
Boston College Law School

Teisha Ruggiero

Detailee
U.S. Department of the Treasury

Susan Ryba

Partner
McDermott Will & Schulte
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Robert Scarborough

Special Counsel
IRS Office of Associate Chief Counsel (International)

Laura Shi

Branch Chief
IRS Office of Chief Counsel (International)

Tim Shuman

Partner
McDermott Will & Schulte

Richard Slowinski

Partner
Baker Hostetler
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Ray Stahl

Principal
Ernst & Young LLP

Jeffrey Tebbs

Member
Miller & Chevalier

Amanda Varma

Partner
Steptoe

Tracy Villecco

Senior Technical Reviewer
IRS Office of Associate Chief Counsel (International)

Elena Virgadamo

Deputy International Tax Counsel for Treaty Affairs
U.S. Department of the Treasury

Jim Wang

International Tax Counsel
U.S. Department of the Treasury

Isaac Wood

Attorney-Advisor, Office of Tax Policy
U.S. Department of the Treasury

Brenda Zent

Special Advisor on International Taxation
U.S. Department of the Treasury
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Ronald Hodge

Assistant Deputy Commissioner Compliance Integration
IRS Large Business and International (LB&I) Division
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Jennifer Rubin

Assistant Director, Civil Division, Tax Litigation Branch
U.S. Department of Justice
Keynote Speaker

Rebecca Burch

Deputy Assistant Secretary (International Tax Affairs)
Department of the Treasury

Jarod Koopman

Chief Tax Compliance Officer
Internal Revenue Service