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
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
Dan McCall
Principal, Washington National Tax - International Tax
Deloitte

Mallory Mendrala
Deputy Associate Chief Counsel
IRS Office of Chief Counsel
John Merrick
Senior Level Counsel
IRS Office of Associate Chief Counsel (International)
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
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
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
Ronald Hodge
Assistant Deputy Commissioner Compliance Integration
IRS Large Business and International (LB&I) Division
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
