Dr. Giorgio Beretta
Giorgio Beretta is an Assistant Professor in Indirect Taxation at the University of Amsterdam (UvA) and a member of the Amsterdam Centre for Tax Law (ACTL)’s research project on “Designing the tax system for a Cashless, Platform-based and Technology-driven society (CPT)”. He is also the academic coordinator of the “VAT/GST” and “VAT – Advanced” courses within the UvA’s Advanced Master’s (LL.M.) in International Tax Law programme. In 2021, his monograph “European VAT and the Sharing Economy (2019)” was awarded the “IFA Maurice Lauré Prize”, which aims to encourage scientific work on international indirect taxation.

Dr. Claudio Cipollini
Claudio Cipollini is an Assistant Professor in Tax & Technology at the University of Amsterdam (UvA) with a special focus on Distributed Ledger Technologies, including Blockchain. He is one of the research leaders of ACTL’s research project “Designing the tax system for a Cashless, Platform-based and Technology-driven society” (CPT). He holds a Ph.D. from Radboud University Nijmegen. In the past, he was a postdoc at Heidelberg University and an adjunct professor of European Taxation Law at the University of Rome “La Sapienza”. He is also a tax lawyer admitted to the Italian Supreme Court.

Dr. Alessia D'Amico
Alessia D’Amico is an Assistant Professor at the International and European Law Department of Utrecht University, where she coordinates the LLM Law and Technology. Her research focuses on the regulation of digital platforms, in particular from a competition and data protection perspective. She has a PhD in Competition Law from the European University Institute. During her PhD, she collaborated with Privacy International and lectured at Wageningen University. She previously worked for the UK Competition and Markets Authority, and  holds an LLM in Competition Law from King’s College London and an LLB from Queen Mary University of London.

Prof. dr. Felix Desmyttere
Felix is a visiting professor at the University of Hasselt (Belgium) and the University of Antwerp (Belgium). He is also associated as a voluntary postdoctoral researcher at the University of Ghent (Belgium). In addition, Felix is a Tax Manager in the Financial Services Team of EY Belgium. He specializes in European and international tax law, with a focus on the regimes on exchange of information and tax transparency. He regularly conducts research on the symbiosis between tax transparency and anti-money laundering regulation. Felix holds a PhD in taxation and a Master of Laws, both from Ghent University.

Prof. dr. Sjoerd Douma
Sjoerd Douma was appointed professor of International and European Procedural Tax Law at the Amsterdam Law School, effective 1 October 2017. He combines his chair with his position as partner at Lubbers, Boer & Douma. Sjoerd Douma is specialised in tax treaty law, EU tax law and procedural tax law. He analyses the legal instruments that states and international organisations deploy to prevent double taxation and double non-taxation, as well as the ways in which they can do so more effectively and which boundaries they must observe in doing so.

Dr. Dennis Post
Dennis holds a PhD in corporate taxation and has been with EY for over 20 years. He is EY’s Global Blockchain Tax Leader and the EMEIA Metaverse & Web3 Tax Leader. Dennis is Co-Chair of the Tax Working group at Global Digital Finance, a member of the EU Blockchain Observatory and Forum, and a Senior Blockchain Tax Researcher at the University of Amsterdam within the research project “Designing the Tax System for a Cashless, Platform-based and Technology-driven Society” (CPT). He is also an author of several international tax publications and frequently acts as a speaker at conferences and other tax events.

Avv. Raffaele Russo
Raffaele Russo is an expert on international taxation and on international and domestic tax policy. He has more than 20 years of experience, having worked with the IBFD in Amsterdam, the OECD in Paris and the Italian Ministry of Economy and Finance in Rome. He is currently Of Counsel at Chiomenti Law Firm and a Senior Fellow at the Amsterdam Centre for Tax Law (ACTL) at the University of Amsterdam (UvA). He lectures in leading universities around the world and speaks frequently at conferences and seminars. He has published more than 100 articles on international tax matters.

Prof. dr. Maarten Pieter Schinkel
Maarten Pieter is Professor of Economics, Professor of Law (by affiliation) and Research Fellow at the Tinbergen Institute. His research interests and teaching are in industrial organization, competition policy and regulation. 'The integration of law into my economic analyses, I find particularly fruitful in understanding social issues of market design. In the MSc programs of the Amsterdam School of Economics, I teach the specialty course Competition Policy. In the Amsterdam Law School LLM programme, I lecture a series on the economics underlying the LLM programme European Competition Law and Regulation. In addition, I teach the introductory first-year course Principles of Economics & Business to all incoming students in Economics and Business Administration.'

Dr. Oscar Smeets
Oscar is a Director within Deloitte's international financial services indirect tax practice in Amsterdam. He specialises in indirect tax technology and information reporting, as well as VAT advisory around complex financial products. Oscar is also a lecturer in Tax Law and Fiscal Economics at Tilburg University, where he coordinates the Indirect Tax Assurance programme. He holds master’s degrees in Tax Law and International Business Law from Tilburg University.

Mr Juan Manuel Vazquez
Juan Manuel is a PhD Candidate at the University of Amsterdam (UvA) and the academic coordinator of ACTL’s CPT project. He is also a Professional Support Lawyer at Loyens & Loeff’s Tax Knowledge Centre. He specialises in international and EU tax law, focusing on the intersection between such disciplines, digital businesses and disrupting technologies. His doctoral research concerns reporting obligations imposed on online platforms under DAC7. Juan Manuel received a Master’s Degree in Tax Law from Universidad Austral (Argentina) and an LL.M in Taxation, with a certificate in International Taxation from Georgetown University Law Center (United States). He is also a former Fulbright and IFA Latam Scholar.

Ms. Anna Vvedenskaya
Anna Vvedenskaya is a lecturer and PhD candidate at the University of Amsterdam (UvA) and a member of ACTL's CPT project. She is also a tax manager at EY - Netherlands. Anna is a tax professional with more than ten years of experience working in consulting, in-house, and academia. Anna's research interest focuses on tax issues of Decentralized Autonomous Organizations (DAOs) and the interactions between video games and taxation.

Prof. dr. Stef van Weeghel
Prof. dr. Stef van Weeghel is professor of international tax law at the University of Amsterdam and chair of the Board of Trustees at IBFD. His focus is on tax policy and tax controversy, with research covering tax treaties and investment treaties. He regularly acts as expert-witness or co-counsel in tax disputes and in investment treaty and commercial arbitration. He is consulted by the private sector and governments, chaired a government-appointed Dutch tax reform committee, appeared before both chambers of the Dutch Parliament and the TAXE and PANA Committees of the European Parliament.

Prof. dr. Carlos Weffe
Prof. dr. Weffe is a postdoctoral researcher at the Universitat Oberta de Catalunya (Barcelona, Spain), where he develops research in Taxation and AI. In parallel with it, he is the head of tax abuse of the Corporate Crime Observatory, a UKbased international platform devoted to promoting the analysis and discussion of corporate and economic crime issues worldwide. He was the Scientific Coordinator of the IBFD Observatory on the Protection of Taxpayers’ Rights (2018-2022). He is a tenured Associate Professor (since 2003) and served (2010-2016) as Chair of Tax Law at the Central University of Venezuela.