Speaker bios

Brigitte Alepin is a Canadian businesswoman, a Harvard trained tax specialist and tax policy advisor. She leaded several major researches and projects for governments, Fortune 500 corporations and NGOs, in various fields including environmental taxation and post-Kyoto negotiations, oil and gas taxation and health care. She has both public and private-sector experience that allows her to offer a rare multidimensional perspective of tax policies and public finances. She has also taught courses in tax and tax policies in Canadian universities. Her written work includes 2 best sellers. She appears as an expert witness before the House of Commons International and finance committees, she speaks regularly at corporate events and presents technical conferences at the national and international levels. Madam Alepin collaborates on a documentary inspired by her book “La crise fiscale qui vient” (The coming fiscal crisis), realised by Harold Crooks and produced by InforAction. She acts as a technical adviser and special collaborator for CBC|SRC, she has been responsible of the tax column for the CPA Magazine (2007-2012) and the Journal de Montreal (2004-2005).

Sas Ansari is a Ph.D. (Taxation) candidate at Osgoode Hall Law School and is being supervised by Professor Peer Zumbansen. Sas is the co-chair of the Osgoode Graduate Law Students Association and member of the Osgoode Admission Committee. He is in the process of completing the In-Depth Tax program offered by Chartered Professional Accountant Canada. Sas obtained his Bachelor of Science (Genetics and Biology), Bachelor of Education (Science), and Juris Doctor (Business Law Concentration in Taxation and Securities) degrees from the University of British Columbia and his Master of Laws (Taxation) degree from Osgoode Hall Law School, York University.

His research interests include the intersections of taxation, environmental law, property law, globalization, regulation, social justice, legal theory, and business law. He also works as a contractor providing legal and policy research and analysis services to practicing lawyers.

Leyla Ates graduated from the Istanbul University Law School, Turkey. She holds an LL.M. and a Ph.D.  on tax law from the Marmara University Institute of Social Sciences, Turkey. She also received an LL.M. degree from the University of Wisconsin Law School and currently is doing her S.J.D at the same university. She is an Associate Professor of Tax Law at the Istanbul Kemerburgaz University in Turkey. Her research interests are in the area of income taxation, international taxation and tax policy.

Sarah has over 10 years experience with grassroots community groups working for social change. Most recently, Sarah was with Inter Pares, an international solidarity organization based in Ottawa, where her major gifts fundraising and communications portfolios included supporting Inter Pares’ tax justice work.

Prior to her time at Inter Pares, Sarah worked for the Centre for Community Organizations in Montreal, an organization supporting non-profits throughout the province of Quebec, where she facilitated made-to-measure workshops for board members and staff on conflict resolution, non-profit governance, and grassroots fundraising. Sarah’s experience in community-based action research includes co-planning a project documenting the relationship of English-speaking, bilingual, and ethno-cultural community groups across Quebec with provincial funding bodies, co-executing the research project, and publishing an academic article she co-authored articulating the research findings.

Her ongoing interests include grassroots fundraising, and conflict resolution, and she is currently completing a graduate program in conflict mediation at Carleton University. 

Rodolfo Salassa Boix graduated from the National University of Córdoba (UNC), Argentina, with a degree in law, and the Rovira i Virgili University of Tarragona (URV), Spain, on the titles of Master of Business Law and Hiring and JD, with references to European quality. He teaches as an Assistant Professor of tax law and international tax law in the Specialization in Tax Law program, Faculty of Law and Social Sciences, UNC.

He was professor of tax law hired at the URV. He is a research assistant Conicet. Currently, he participates on the Editorial Board of three foreign journals (Brazil and Colombia). He has made several research visits to Spain and Italy.

Kim Brooks is the Dean at the Schulich School of Law at Dalhousie University. Prior to her arrival at Dalhousie, Kim served as an associate professor and the H. Heward Stikeman Chair in the Law of Taxation at McGill University.

Kim teaches all areas of tax law including individual taxation, corporate tax, and international tax.

Before moving to academia, Kim practiced as a tax lawyer with Stikeman Elliott LLP in their Toronto and London (UK) offices.  Her practice focused on corporate and international tax, including tax aspects of cross-border investments and transactions, financings, reorganizations and restructurings.

Neil H. Buchanan teaches tax law, tax policy, contracts, and law and economics. His research addresses the long-term tax and spending patterns of the federal government, focusing on budget deficits, the national debt, health care costs, and Social Security. He also is engaged in a long-term research project that asks how current policy choices should be shaped by concerns for the interests of future generations.

Professor Buchanan has held permanent or visiting positions at Rutgers-Newark School of Law, NYU School of Law, and Cornell Law School. He clerked for Judge Robert H. Henry on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit. Prior to attending law school, Professor Buchanan was an economics professor, specializing in macroeconomics, the history of economic thought, and economic methodology. He has held full-time faculty positions in economics at the University of Michigan, the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Barnard College, Goucher College, and Wellesley College.

Professor Buchanan has published articles in the George Washington Law Review, NYU’s Tax Law Review, Cornell Law Review, and Virginia Tax Review, as well as in the refereed social science periodicals The Journal of Economic Issues and The Journal of Socio Economics. He has also testified before Congress about issues related to tax reform. He has written articles for Tax Notes and Challenge: The Magazine of Economic Affairs. In addition, he is a columnist for "Verdict: Legal Analysis and Commentary from Justia," and he publishes twice weekly on the legal blog “Dorf on Law.

Denise Byrnes is currently Executive Director of Oxfam-Québec and CLUB 2/3.

Ms. Byrnes joined Oxfam-Quebec as Senior Director of International Programs in 2011. A seasoned manager, Ms. Byrnes has extensive experience in the international NGO sector. For over 20 years, she has been developing and implementing programs, both in Canada and in the field, in countries in Africa, Asia and Latin America.

Ms. Byrnes has previously occupied the positions of Executive Director for SUCO, Regional Director for Ovarian Cancer Canada, Team Leader for Africa for Development and Peace, Programme officer for CUSO (Canadian University Services Overseas) and Programme Coordinator for Canada World Youth.

Montano Cabezas recently graduated from McGill University’s Faculty of Law and is currently a summer associate at Baker & McKenzie LLP. He is also an LLM candidate at Georgetown University Law Center.

While at McGill, Montano appeared on the Dean’s Honour List and was awarded the MacKay Corporate Tax Award, the Spiegel Sohmer Taxation Scholarship, and the Gualtieri-Doran Scholarship for Academic Merit; he was also the Citations Editor for the McGill Law Journal.

Aldo Caliari has been, since 2000, staff at the Washington DC-based Center of Concern where he is currently a Project Director focusing on linkages between trade and finance policy, global economic governance, debt, international financial architecture and human rights in international economic policy.

He has done considerable public speaking for a variety of audiences that range from popular workshops to academia and closed government briefings. Over the last decade, Mr Caliari designed and organized conferences, workshops, private and public meetings and seminars for government officials, civil society and academic audiences in the US and more than 20 different locations overseas. He edited four books on linkages between trade and finance and one on regional and global liquidity arrangements and his writings have been published in books, academic and specialized journals, and the media. He is also lead writer and editor for the blog of RightingFinance, an initiative to help human rights organizations and other civil society groups better understand the intersections between finance and human rights which Center of Concern co-founded and coordinates. He has been a consultant to several intergovernmental organizations -- such as UNCTAD, UNDP, UN DESA, the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights— in addition to governments, civil society networks and foundations.

Mr Caliari holds a Master of International Policy and Practice from George Washington University (2007), with a focus on economics and finance. He also holds a Masters Degree from the Washington College of Law, American University, on International Legal Studies (2000), where he was honored with the Outstanding Graduate Award. He earned his first degree in Argentina, at the Universidad Nacional de Tucuman.

John Christensen directs the Tax Justice Network and is commissioning editor of Tax Justice Focus. Trained as an investigating economist, he has worked extensively in offshore finance. He is based in Chesham, U.K.

Allison Christians is the H. Heward Stikeman Chair in the Law of Taxation at the McGill University Faculty of Law. Her research and teaching focus on national and international tax law and policy issues, with emphasis on the relationship between taxation and economic development and on the role of government and non-government institutions and actors in the creation of tax policy norms.

She has written numerous scholarly articles, essays, and book chapters, as well as editorials, columns, and articles in professional journals, addressing national and international tax law and policy issues. Her most recent scholarly articles include ‘Avoidance, Evasion, and Taxpayer Morality,’ 44 Wash. U. J.L. & Pol’y 39 (2014), ‘Good Tax Governance and the Issue of Political Influence,’ in Tax Abuses, Poverty and Human Rights, Thomas Pogge and Krishen Mehta, eds. (Oxford, forthcoming 2014), "Drawing the Boundaries of Tax Justice," in The Carter Commission After 50 Years (Carswell 2013); and "Putting the Reign Back in Sovereign," 40 Pepp. L. Rev. 1373 (2013)

Professor Christians is the author of ‘The Big Picture,’ a column for Tax Analysts’ Tax Notes International, serves as editor of the Tax section of Jotwell, and regularly comments on developments in international tax law and policy on the Tax, Society & Culture blog, on the Lexis Tax Community blog, and on Twitter @taxpolblog.

In May 2014, she was awarded the John Durnford Prize in Teaching Excellence by the Law Student Association of McGill University.

Stephen Cohen has led a double professional life, as political activist and academic tax lawyer.  After graduating from Amherst in 1967, he worked successively for Senator Eugene McCarthy's presidential campaign, the Moratorium to End the Vietnam War, The National Welfare Rights Organization, and the National Citizens Committee Concerned About the Anti-Ballistic Missile System.

After graduating from Yale Law School in 1971, Stephen taught tax at Rutgers, Wisconsin, and Stanford.  When Jimmy Carter became President in 1977, he worked on arms control issues for the Policy Planning Staff at the Department of State in Washington, D.C and later served as Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Human Rights. 

After leaving the State Department in 1980, he wrote about political issues for The Nation, The New Republic, The New York Times, The New Yorker, and The Washington Post and began regular trips to South Africa to report on conditions under apartheid.

He has taught federal income taxation at Georgetown for the past 30 plus years except for a visit at Harvard several years ago. His major scholarly interest has been the intersection of tax and civil rights law.  He has also written about the flat tax, income inequality, and Thurgood Marshall's and Ruth Ginsburg’s tax law opinions, as well as a series of articles for the Green Bag, 2d on tax law oddities, including: Hester Prynne, Lydia Bennet, and Section 306 Stock; Tax Metamorphosis: A Miniscule Contribution to Law and Literature; and The Tax of Physics, The Physics of Tax.

Professor Dean’s expertise lies in tax law. His scholarship addresses a range of tax and budget issues and has appeared in a number of leading law reviews. His article Tax Deregulation, for example, considered the surprising implications of enhancing taxpayer autonomy and appeared in the New York University Law Review. Other work has considered unconventional solutions to longstanding problems such as tax havens, regulatory complexity and tax shelters. Recent work with Dana Brakman Reiser has explored the special challenges and opportunities presented by social enterprises, ventures that simultaneously pursue private profits and the public good.

Professor Dean is a member of the Executive Committee of the New York State Bar Association’s Tax Section. Before joining Brooklyn Law School, he worked as an associate at Debevoise & Plimpton and at Cravath, Swaine & Moore. In law school, he was an editor of the Yale Law and Policy Review.

Stéphane Dion was Minister of Intergovernmental Affairs between 1996 and 2003, longer than any other Canadian since Confederation. In that capacity, he was instrumental in bringing countless federal-provincial negotiations to fruition and played a major role in the promotion of Canadian unity. As Minister also responsible for Official Languages, he crafted a renewal plan that was very well received in the community.

As Minister of the Environment from 2004 to 2005, he secured one of the greenest budgets in the history of Canada and contributed to the rescue of the Kyoto Protocol while chairing the UN Conference on Climate Change, held in Montreal in 2005.

Before entering politics, Stéphane Dion taught Political Science, first at Université de Moncton in 1984, then at Université de Montréal from 1984 to 1995. He has authored many publications.

Born in Quebec City, he studied at Université Laval before obtaining a Doctorate in Sociology from the Institut d’études politiques in Paris, France. He was also awarded an Honorary Doctorate by the Carlos III University of Madrid. He was the recipient of the 2011 Couchiching Award for Public Policy Leadership and sits on the External Advisory Board of the Yale Climate and Energy Institute.

At the present time, Mr. Dion acts as Liberal Critic for Intergovernmental Affairs, the Queen’s Privy Council of Canada, Canadian Heritage and Official Languages.

Kate Donald is a human rights researcher and advocate.

From 2012-2014, she worked as Adviser and Researcher to the United Nations Special Rapporteur on extreme poverty and human rights, Magdalena Sepúlveda.  In this capacity, she played a primary role in researching and drafting the Special Rapporteur's 2014 report to the UN Human Rights Council on tax policy and human rights.

Previously, Kate was Research Fellow at the International Council on Human Rights Policy, where she worked on issues including climate change, corruption, sexuality and the penalization of poverty, examining their intersections with human rights discourse, practice and law.

Kate has a Master’s degree in Human Rights from the London School of Economics, and a Bachelor’s degree in Modern History from the University of Oxford.

Misabel Derzi holds a Bachelor of Laws (summa cum laude) and a PhD from the Federal University of Minas Gerais, Brazil.

She’s currently a Full Professor of Tax Law at UFMG and at Milton Campos College. She’s a former Minas Gerais State Attorney-General and a former Belo Horizonte City Attorney-General.

As a tax lawyer, she has intense practice before the High Courts in Brasília. She has published almost 400 works, including articles, book chapters and books. In addition she lectures in conferences worldwide.

Regina Flávia Moraes Duarte has a bachelor degree from one of the most important Latin American Universities - The Federal University of Minas Gerais. After graduation, she participated in important study groups in tax law and acted as a graduate student instructor. She has two specializations in consumption taxes.

Today, she works as a tax lawyer and is an LLM student at Federal University of Minas Gerais, where she worked as an teaching fellow for one year, giving tax law lessons to accounting students.

Renaud Fossard is Policy Manager on International Tax Issues at the Latin American Network on Debt, Development and Rights (LATINDADD) since 2012 and represents LATINDADD at the Financial Transparency Coalition, a global coalition working on curtailing illicit financial flows through the promotion of a fairer, more transparent, accountable and sustainable financial system. He writes monthly in the digital review Economía Crítica edited in Spanish.

From 2010 to 2012, Renaud was advocacy campaigner at the French development Ngo CCFD on tax justice issues and participated actively in the platform of civil society that organized the Alter Summit at the French G20 Summit in 2011. He has a Master of Political Sciences in International Relations and Development from Institute of Political Studies of Grenoble, and a Licence in Law from Aix-Marseille University.

Robert Fox has served as Executive Director of Oxfam Canada since July 2005. In that time, he has led a renewal process that had seen Oxfam Canada adopt gender justice as the focus for its program, policy, campaign and advocacy work.

Robert has lead Oxfam delegations at the G8 and G20 and a number of international summits and conferences and is the lead ED for development effectiveness for Oxfam International.

Robert has worked as Oxfam Canada’s Representative for Central America and Mexico, based in Managua, Nicaragua and as Director of Communications for the Canadian Union of Public Employees.

Jo Marie Griesgraber is the Executive Director of the New Rules for Global Finance Coalition, a Washington-based international network of activists and researchers concerned with reforms of the international financial architecture.

Previously, Dr. Griesgraber was Director of Policy at Oxfam America where she supervised advocacy programs on international trade, humanitarian response, global funding for basic education and extractive industries. Before that, she directed the Rethinking Bretton Woods Project at the Center of Concern, a Jesuit related social justice research center, where she worked on reform of the World Bank, regional development banks and International Monetary Fund.

She has taught political science at Georgetown University, Goucher College and American University, and was Deputy Director of the Washington Office on Latin America, a human rights lobby office. She chaired Jubilee 2000/USA's Executive Committee and edited, with Bernhard Gunter, the five volume Rethinking Bretton Woods series. Ms. Griesgraber received her Ph.D. in political science from Georgetown University and her B.A. in history from the University of Dayton, Ohio.

Victoria began her career with Oxfam as a campaigner in 2005, and has led and supported campaigns and advocacy strategies with Oxfam at the local, national and international level, and across a wide range of issues.

After six years with Oxfam Canada, Victoria moved into a new role with Oxfam International’s Essential Services Campaign, where she is currently working with a team of incredible campaigners to develop Oxfam’s future campaign on Inequality.

Prior to her work with Oxfam, Victoria studied Human Justice at the University of Regina with a focus on human rights and social movements, and was an activist and community organizer on human rights, health, education and empowerment issues in Regina, Saskatchewan, and with organizations like Amnesty International.

Martin is currently a PhD candidate at the London School of Economics and Political Science, where his research focuses on the political economy of developing countries' international tax policy. He writes a regular blog on 'tax, international relations and development', which can be found at martinhearson.wordpress.com

Before beginning his PhD research in 2012, Martin was ActionAid UK's tax justice policy adviser. In that role he co-authored the report 'Calling Time: Why SABMiller should stop dodging taxes in Africa', a detailed account of profit-shifting by a British beer company in Ghana and five other countries.

Martin has collaborated on a number of other tax and development publications, including "Tax-motivated illicit financial flows: A guide for development practitioners" for the U4 anti-corruption centre, and "What the EU should do to make taxes work for the poor" for Concord Denmark.

May Hen is a graduate student in the School of Communication at Simon Fraser University in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada and a visiting faculty researcher at the University College of the Cayman Islands.

Her research intersects the field of fiscal sociology and Caribbean anthropology. The purpose of her study is to understand the social, cultural, political and economic values of Cayman Islanders by looking at experiences of both the local and expatriate communities. In order to do this, she will look at the experiences behind migration and integration patterns of individuals to the Cayman Islands. She is interested in how normative values are imported from the various nationalities to the island. How do these values affect the long-term social, fiscal and political cycle of the Cayman Islands? How are these values communicated to other nations? She will be using ethnography as her primary methodology and will interview the various sectors of the local, expatriate, educational, governmental and business communities.

May Hen's research is supported through various scholarships awarded by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada and Simon Fraser University.

James S. Henry is a leading economist, attorney, consultant, and investigative journalist, who has written and spoken widely on tax havens and development finance issues. He has served as Director of Economic Research (chief economist), McKinsey & Co.; VP Strategy, IBM/Lotus Development Corporation; Business Development Manager, Chairman's Office (Jack Welch), GE; and Senior Consultant, Monitor Company. He is founder of Sag Harbor Group, a technology strategy consulting firm, and has also founded several technology-based start-ups.

In the not-for-profit sector, he has served as Chair of the Global Alliance for Tax Justice, senior advisor and global board member of Tax Justice Network, and founder and steering committee member of TJN-USA. He is also a founder and Managing Partner of the Northern Environmental Law Center. He has written numerous books, including The Blood Bankers (NY: Basic Books, 2005) and The Price of Offshore Revisited (July 2012, Tax Justice Network) and his articles have appeared in many leading newspapers, magazines, and professional journals, including Business Week, The Financial Times and The New York Times.

James Henry has testified several times before the US Senate on economic policy issues, is a frequent speaker at forums on international development, and has been interviewed on a wide variety of economic issues for leading international broadcast networks and radio stations. He has served as the Edward R. Murrow Fellow at the Fletcher School, Tufts University, and is a regular contributor to Forbes and the American Interest. He is Senior Economic Advisor to the Tax Justice Network and a Senior Fellow at Columbia University's Center for Sustainable International Investment. He is an honors graduate of Harvard College (Magna Cum Laude, Social Studies ’72; Detur Prize; Phi Beta Kappa, National Merit Scholar, Chairman, Institute of Politics, Student Advisory Committee); Harvard Law School (J.D., Honors, 1976); Harvard Graduate School of Arts and Sciences (M.S. ABD, Economics, 1978); Danforth Fellow; “Nader Raider;” and a member of the New York Bar since 1979.

Since being appointed Director of the Glendon School of Public and International Affairs in September 2009, Dr. Alex Himelfarb has guided the School’s research capacity and its professional development programming, while strengthening the interface between the School and the public sector. Dr. Himelfarb also leads the Centre for Global Challenges which, stressing the interplay of domestic and global issues, brings together decision makers, researchers, practitioners, and students to explore challenges confronting Canada in a changing world.

Dr. Himelfarb was a Professor of Sociology at the University of New Brunswick from 1972 to 1981. During this period, he undertook an Executive Interchange with the Department of Justice as Head of the Unified Family Court Project from 1979 to 1981.

In 1981, he joined the Public Service with the Department of the Solicitor General of Canada. He has held a number of positions of increasing responsibility since that time, including Director General, Planning and Systems Group, Planning and Management Branch with the Department of the Solicitor General of Canada; Executive Director of the National Parole Board; Assistant Secretary to the Cabinet, Social Policy Development with the Privy Council Office; and Associate Secretary of the Treasury Board. While serving as Associate Secretary of the Treasury Board, he also headed the federal Task Force on the Social Union. In June 1999, Mr. Himelfarb became Deputy Minister of Canadian Heritage. He then served as Clerk of the Privy Council and Secretary to the Cabinet from 2002 to 2006 when he was nominated as Ambassador of Canada to the Italian Republic with concurrent accreditation to the Republic of Albania and the Republic of San Marino, and as High Commissioner for Canada to the Republic of Malta.

Dennis Howlett is the Executive Director of Canadians for Tax Fairness which is campaigning for fairer taxes to fund the comprehensive, high-quality public services and programs required to meet our social, economic and environmental needs in the 21st century. He lives in Ottawa.

César Alejandro Ruiz Jiménez was born in 5 January 1983 in Oaxaca (Mexico). He studied Law at the Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México (ITAM) earning a Law Degree with the thesis title: “The Constitutional Hierarchy of International Agreements on Fundamental Rights”. He also studied Taxation at Universidad Panamericana (UP) earning a Master in Tax Lax Degree.

He then studied International Taxation at University of Florida earning a LL.M. in International Taxation with the research topic “The adoption of the American Economic Substance Doctrine in the Mexican Legal System”. Since September 2011 he has been studying for his doctorate degree in the DIBT Program at WU. H

e has worked as Tax Attorney with the Former President of the Mexican Academy of Tax Law, Augusto Fernández Sagardi; Adviser for the Mexican Supreme Court of Justice; and Secretary for a Federal Administrative Court in Mexico City.

Dean Daniel Jutras joined the Faculty of Law, McGill University in 1985, after serving for a year as Mr. Justice Antonio Lamer’s law clerk at the Supreme Court of Canada.

In June 2009, he was named Interim Dean of the Faculty, and was appointed Dean in March 2010. Professor Jutras was promoted to the rank of Associate Professor in 1991, and Full Professor in 2001. From 2002 to 2004, Professor Jutras was on leave from the Faculty, acting as personal secretary to the Chief Justice of Canada, the Right Honourable Beverley McLachlin, in the position of Executive Legal Officer of the Supreme Court of Canada.

Dean Jutras holds degrees from Harvard University and Université de Montréal, where he won the Governor General’s gold medal. His teaching and research interests are in civil law and comparative law, with a focus on the law of obligations and civil procedure.

Jonathan Rhys Kesselman is a professor in Simon Fraser University’s School of Public Policy and has held the Canada Research Chair in Public Finance since 2004.

He has a doctorate in economics from M.I.T. and was professor of economics at the University of British Columbia from 1972 to 2003. He was awarded the Canadian Economics Association’s major prize for Canadian economic policy research (twice), the Canadian Tax Foundation’s award for Canadian tax policy research, and the Reserve Bank of Australia’s Professorial Fellowship in Economic Policy.

His research ranges widely over topics in tax policy and social policy with a particular focus on distributional issues and laid the foundation for the Tax Free Savings Account and contributed to creation of the Registered Disability Savings Plan.

Michael S. Knoll is the Theodore Warner Professor of Law at the University of Pennsylvania Law School, Professor of Real Estate at the Wharton School, and Co-director of the University of Pennsylvania Center for Tax Law and Policy.

Professor Knoll teaches courses in corporate finance and taxation in the Law School, the Wharton School, and the Wharton Executive Program. He is also an affiliate of the Zell/Lurie Real Estate Center at the Wharton School, of the Penn-Wharton Public Policy Initiative, and the Penn Institute for Law and Economics. Professor Knoll is also the editor of Forensic Economic Abstracts, an electronic journal published by the Social Science Research Network.

The author of more than 50 articles, Professor Knoll has written extensively in the fields of corporate finance, taxation, and real estate finance. His academic work has been published in student law reviews (including those of Harvard, Yale, and Stanford), peer-reviewed economics journals, and professional journals. His op-ed pieces have appeared in the Wall Street Journal and elsewhere.

Professor Knoll is an expert on the interface of business and law, especially tax law. Professor Knoll’s recent research focuses on how taxation impacts competitiveness and on how modern business transactions are structured. Before entering academia, Professor Knoll clerked for the Honorable Alex Kozinski, U.S. Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit, served as legal advisor to two vice chairmen of the U.S. International Trade Commission, and practiced law. Professor Knoll’s undergraduate and J.D. degrees are from the University of Chicago. He also earned a Ph.D. in Economics at the University of Chicago. In 2013, Professor Knoll completed the Advanced Management Program at Wharton.

Kathleen Lahey is professor and Queen's National Scholar, Faculty of Law, Queen's University, and cross-appointed to Gender Studies and Cultural Studies. She teaches taxation, tax policy, property, and equality law. A member of the Ontario Fair Tax Commission working groups on corporate taxation and on women in taxation, as well as the Law Commission of Canada Advisory Group on adult relationships, and the FemTax, Law and Society International Legal Feminisms, and TUAQ research networks, she consults widely on tax and economic issues concerning women, with submissions to Canadian parliamentary committees and international organizations.

Her current research focuses on comparative and domestic sex/gender impact analysis of fiscal policies, and in 2013 she presented her work at the Arctic Council conference in Kiruna, Sweden while a visiting professor at Umea University Forum on Studies in Law and Society.

Recent works include ‘Economic Crisis, Gender Equality, and Policy Responses in Spain and Canada’ (2013) Feminist Economics 19: 3, 82-107 (with Paloma de Villota), and ‘Taking Back the Budget: Feminist Institutional, Gender-based, and Gender Budget Analysis,’ in Changing Places: Feminist Essays on Empathy and Relocation, ed. Valerie Burton and Jean Guthrie, Inanna, 2014.

Professor Latulippe currently teaches in the tax department at the University of Sherbrooke and was previously on the faculty at UQAM. She researches and publishes on topics of comparative and international taxation, international tax cooperation, and tax policy.

Lloyd is an international human rights lawyer with over 15 years of experience working with leading companies, governments, national human rights institutions, civil society organizations and indigenous peoples. He has developed a niche in the field of human rights impact assessment with a focus on extractive industry projects and free trade agreements. He has special expertise on indigenous peoples rights, economic, social and cultural rights and stakeholder engagement. He regularly publishes and makes presentations on a wide range of human rights issues relevant to companies, industry associations and governments.

Lloyd previously served as the senior assistant to three Presidents of Rights & Democracy from 2003 to 2008, and participated in all aspects of the organization’s management and programming, including the development of a community-based human rights impact assessment methodology. He began his career as a corporate litigator at McMillan Binch in Toronto. His education is from Queen’s University in philosophy and politics, and then from McGill University in law. He is a member of the Law Society of Upper Canada.

Nicholas Lusiani is Director of the Human Rights in Economic Policy Program at the Center for Economic and Social Rights, where his work focuses on promoting alternative human rights-centered economic and development policies. Niko previously worked with the International Network for Economic, Social and Cultural Rights and the Centro por los Derechos Economicos y Sociales in Ecuador. He also has experience in the fields of international humanitarian relief, indigenous rights, human rights in Syria and the criminal justice system in the United States. He received a Master’s degree in International Affairs from the School of International and Public Affairs at Columbia University, where he specialized in international human rights law and macroeconomics.

His recent publications include ‘A Post-2015 Fiscal Revolution: Human Rights Policy Brief’ (Christian Aid and Center for Economic and Social Rights, 2014); ‘Only the Little People Pay Taxes: Tax Evasion and Switzerland’s Extraterritorial Obligations to Economic, Social and Cultural Rights’ in Litigating Transnational Human Rights Obligations: Alternative judgments (Routledge, 2014); ‘Rationalizing the Right to Health: Is Spain’s Austere Response to the Economic Crisis Impermissible under International Human Rights Law?’ and ‘Two steps forward, no steps back? Evolving criteria on the prohibition of retrogression in economic, social and cultural rights’ (co-authored with Christian Courtis & Aoife Nolan) in Economic and Social Rights After the Global Financial Crisis (Cambridge University Press, 2014); and ‘Economic and Social Rights in the ‘Great Recession’: Towards a Human Rights-Centered Economic Policy in Times of Crisis’ (co-authored with Ignacio Saiz & Sally-Anne Way) in Economic, Social and Cultural Rights in International Law: Contemporary Issues and Challenges (Oxford University Press, 2014).

Jessica Magonet (BCL/LLB (expected) '15) is the Editor-in-Chief of the McGill International Journal of Sustainable Development Law and Policy. She has previously worked for Ecojustice Canada and has served as the Chair of the Executive Committee of the Sierra Youth Coalition.

Adrienne Margolis is founder and editor of Lawyers for Better Business. She is a journalist and consultant with a wealth of writing and project management experience. She is currently a director of Tax Justice Research and a member of the UK Equality and Human Rights Commission Business and Human Rights Working Group.

Krishen Mehta is a former partner with PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC), and serves currently on the Advisory Board of Aspen Institute’s Business and Society Program and as a Senior Global Justice Fellow at Yale University.

Krishen is also Senior Advisor to the Tax Justice Network, and is on the Asia Advisory Council of Human Rights Watch. He is Trustee of the Social Science Foundation, an organization that oversees the Korbel School of International Studies at the University of Denver. He is also a Trustee of the Institute of Current World Affairs in Washington, DC, and is one of the founding directors of Asia Initiatives, a US 501(C)(3) organization. Krishen has an undergraduate degree in Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, India. He has a Masters in Business Administration majoring in Accounting and Finance, and is a US CPA.

Since 2009, Krishen has been actively engaged on issues relating to the structural roots of global inequality - the relationship between tax policy, illicit financial flows, and poverty - and the effect it has on both developed and developing countries. He served till 2012 as Co-Chairman of Global Financial Integrity (GFI), a research and advocacy group at the Center for International Policy, in Washington, DC.

Krishen is an Adjunct Professor at American University’s School of International Service in Washington, DC. He has been an invited speaker at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University, at the Global Justice Program at Yale University, and at the Executive Management Program at Tokyo University. He has conducted Capstone research projects at Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs in New York. In 2013 Krishen was honored as a Master Scholar by the Daniels School of Business at the University of Denver.

Krishen writings have been published in the International Herald Tribune, the Japan Times, the Dallas Morning News, and various magazines on issues of tax and global justice.

Juan A. Argibay Molina is an Under-Secretary at the Attorney-General Office in Argentina. He was recently appointed as a Coordinator at the Money Laundering & Financial Crimes Prosecution Office (called PROCELAC), where he focuses on stock market related crimes like insider trading, currency market rigging, price manipulation.

Juan has a Master´s degree in Laws (LLM) from McGill University, granted in 2014. He works on issues of money laundering, tax evasion and capital shift through business transactions. He wrote his thesis on trade mispricing (“The Phenomenon of Trade Mispricing: Untying the Knot for a Legal Analysis”) under the supervision of Allison Christians.

Before, Juan did a post-graduate program on Corporate Development at Universidad Austral – Instituto de Altos Estudios (IAE), and his law degree at Universidad Del Salvador. Now, he is also an LLM candidate at Universidad Torcuato Di Tella (UTDT) in the Law & Economics Master program.

Gabriel Monette is a researcher with Réseau Justice Fiscale, Quebec.

He holds a degree in political philosophy from UQAM and has provided public service at ENAP.

He has undertaken research on tax justice issues with noted author and tax justice advocate Alain Denault.

André Mendes Moreira is a tax lawyer who practices in Belo Horizonte, Rio de Janeiro, São Paulo and Brasília.

He graduated with academic distinction and obtained his Master of Laws in taxation at the Federal University of Minas Gerais, having later obtained his PhD in Tax Law from the University of São Paulo. He’s the author of the books “A Não-Cumulatividade dos Tributos” (The Value-Added Taxes) and “A Tributação dos Serviços de Comunicação” (Taxation of Communication Services), as well as a Tax Law Professor at the Federal University of Minas Gerais and a lecturer.

Savior Mwambwa has over seven years of experience working on Tax Justice issues. He is currently the Policy and Advocacy Manager at the Tax Justice Network-Africa (TJN-A) a Nairobi based Pan-African grouping of NGOs that seeks to promote socially just, taxation systems in Africa, as well as advocating for pro-poor tax regimes and the strengthening of tax regimes to promote domestic resource mobilization.

Mr Mwambwa is also the Africa lead advocate for the Financial Transparency coalition (FTC), a global network working to address opacity in the international financial system and promote improved financial transparency and accountability on an international level. Prior to his current position Mr Mwambwa spent 6 years in Zambia as Executive Director of the Centre for Trade Policy and Development (CTPD), where he led an OECD complaint against Glencore and its Zambian mining subsidiary for violations of the OECD guidelines for MNCs on Tax. Mr Mwambwa has also given written and oral evidence before the UK parliamentary committee on International Development on tax and development and lobbied European MPs on Controlled Foreign Companies rules.

Mr Mwambwa has an undergraduate qualification in Development studies from the University of Zambia and a post graduate qualification in International trade law and Trade Policy from Lund University (Sweden) and the Trade Policy Training Centre in Africa (TRAPCA) in Tanzania.

Liz is a director of Tax Justice Network. Liz works on strategy, operations and finance issues, and coordinates across a range of advocacy, research and global outreach projects.  Liz joined TJN in 2010 after working at the Skoll Centre for Social Entrepreneurship, University of Oxford. For many years, Liz managed and developed housing projects for vulnerable and ‘at risk’ adults throughout the UK.

Liz graduated from Liverpool University with a M.A. in Victorian Literature. She has a Postgraduate Cert. in Human Rights and Development Management from the Open University’s Global Programme in Development Management. Liz lives in Oxford with her partner and son.

Professor Odinet's primary teaching and research interests focus on the intersection of traditional property law concepts with modern commercial and tax policies. He has published multiple law review articles in the areas of property law, commercial finance, and the taxation of real estate. His recent publications have appeared in the South Carolina Law Review, the Quinnipiac Law Review, the Louisiana Law Review, and the Idaho Law Review.

Prior to joining the faculty, Christopher Odinet was an associate in the real estate and business group at the law firm of Phelps Dunbar, L.L.P. His practice involved complex commercial real estate transactions, multi-family and mixed-use developments, and public-private tax-incentive financing.

While a law student at Louisiana State University's Paul M. Hebert Law Center, Professor Odinet served as Editor-in-Chief of the Louisiana Law Review, was inducted into the Order of the Coif, and was the recipient of the W. Lee Hargrave Award.

Professor Odinet is a member of the council of the Louisiana State Law Institute and several of its committees, active with the state and local bar associations, and is a member of the boards of the Baton Rouge Speech and Hearing Foundation and the East Baton Rouge Housing Authority.

Daisy Akinyi Ogembo is an Advocate of the High Court of Kenya with significant 8 years post-study experience. She holds an undergraduate degree in Law from the University of Nairobi and a Masters in Law from University of London, Queen Mary College.

Daisy has worked in the leading litigation firm of Oraro & Company Advocates where she spent six years carrying out legal research on numerous areas of the law, and touching on crosscutting issues relevant to her clients’ needs. She also obtained significant experience in the preparation of briefs and submissions for consumption by the High Court of Kenya, the Court of Appeal of Kenya and the International Criminal Court, clients and decision makers in various government institutions such as the Kenya Revenue Authority, the Central Bank of Kenya and Treasury. Daisy also had an opportunity to make numerous oral arguments before judges of the High Court and Court of Appeal in Kenya.

Apart from taking several modules in tax law during her LLM study, Daisy gained some practical experience in revenue law in Kenya, including litigation in the tax tribunals while working with the leading legal and financial tax advisory firm, Viva Africa Consulting LLP.

She is presently works at the Strathmore Law School as a full time faculty member and Director of Research, Strathmore Tax Research Centre. She will be commencing her DPhil at the Oxford University in September 2014. Her areas of interest include comparative law, tax administration, international tax law, tax theory and policy, regulation of multinational enterprises (MNEs), and administrative law.

Professor Henry M. Ordower joined SLU LAW in 1977 after two years of large firm practice emphasizing corporate and real estate transactions and tax law. In his more than 30 years of teaching and scholarship, Prof. Ordower has established himself as an expert in analyzing complex statutes and structuring business transactions for economic and tax efficiency.

He has published articles in domestic and international publications on developments and complexities in U.S. taxation, estate planning, compensation deferral, trusts, and hedge funds. He lectures frequently both at home and abroad, including Germany, Scandinavia, France, China, South Africa, China and South Korea. He has traveled to approximately 120 countries, is fluent in German and Swedish, and reads eight other languages.

Professor Ordower’s recent scholarship explores mutual assistance in tax matters under tax treaties and the role of hedge funds, private equity funds and sovereign wealth funds in the financial markets. Currently, he is exploring cultural factors that contribute to tax avoidance and evasion.

Shirley has over ten years’ international experience as a rule of law and human rights practitioner, leading high-level capacity-building programmes, fact-finding missions, trial observations and research projects. She is currently reading for an LLM on International Corporate Governance, Financial Regulations and Economic Law and holds a PgDip in Rule of Law and Democratisation, and a French Maitrise in International Public Law/LLB eq. Shirley’s previous positions include: Cabinet member for the French local government, Programme Director with Ensemble Contre Le Peine de Mort (ECPM), and Legal Officer with the Burma Lawyers’ Council. At the IBAHRI, Shirley covers both country-specific and thematic programmes, including heading the IBAHRI’s engagement in Myanmar (Burma), business and human rights projects, and the IBAHRI’s representation at the UN in Geneva. She has authored and co-authored published reports on international justice and the death penalty.

Annick Provencher is an assistant professor in tax law at the Faculty of Law of University of Montreal. She acquired her expertise in tax law in practicing, for over a decade, as counsel for the Tax Litigation and Advisory Directorate of the Department of Justice Canada.

Annick Provencher is completing doctoral studies in tax law at University of Ottawa on the construction of women’s role by the tax policy discourse. Her thesis focuses on the potential friction between the requirements of neutrality of tax laws and the introduction of redistribution mechanisms of a social nature in these laws. The dominant discourse assigns different roles to women, both in the elaboration and in the judicial interpretation of provisions of the law. Her work is located at the intersection of law, taxation and sociology and involves an important interdisciplinary dimension.

Her various research activities have resulted, among other things, in presentations at academic conferences, contributions to collective works and articles.

James Robb is a senior counsel at the Montréal office of Stikeman Elliott. He has had a corporate and litigation practice covering in particular government/corporate relations, international trade and finance, international law contracts, international and national marketing arrangements, commercial arbitration, regulatory and civil litigation, particularly in trade, communications, banking, engineering and construction contracts and product liability.

He has practiced actively before the Supreme Court of Canada, in the Federal Court system, and the Quebec Civil and Criminal Court as well as before provincial and federal regulatory bodies, in particular relating to consumer protection, restrictive trade practices and competition law, cross-border trade, particularly anti-dumping, environmental matters, patent, trademark matters, transport, telecommunications and energy.

He has represented clients in the home appliance and electronic industry, chemical industry, steel industry, the food processing industry, pharmaceutical industry, sporting goods industry, energy matters, the motor vehicle industry, the engineering service and construction industry and others.

Tracey Roberts is a Visiting Assistant Professor at the University of California, Hastings College of the Law, where she teaches Corporate and Partnership Taxation, Nonprofit Organizations and Tax Policy.

Professor Roberts performs historical research and uses economic theory to examine aspects of tax policy, property law, systems of private governance, and environmental and land use regulation. Her most recent articles have been published in the Northwestern University Law Review, The University of California, Berkeley Ecology Law Quarterly, and the Washington and Lee Law Review. She has previously taught law at Seattle University, the University of Louisville, and the University of South Carolina.

Before turning to academia, Professor Roberts practiced in the area of commercial real estate and affordable housing, specializing in real estate transactions, mixed-use real estate development, sustainable land use planning and nonprofit law in Atlanta, GA and Denver, CO. She received her LL.M. in Taxation from New York University, her J.D. from Vanderbilt University Law School, and her A.B. from Harvard University.

Imad Sabi has been with Oxfam Novib since 2005, working on global governance and support to global civil society. He works at Oxfam Novib's Global Link Department, where he is responsible for the financial sector portfolio. He is the Coordinator of the Methodology Group in the International Bank Wiser, the recently launched international civil society network monitoring the banking sector.  Imad served on the Board of the Global Campaign for Education for five years, represents Oxfam on the International Council of the World Social Forum, and is the civil society representative on the Grants and Performance Committee of the Global Partnership for Education.

Prior to joining Oxfam, Imad worked for Palestinian NGOs, and managed ICCO's emergency programs in the Middle East and Africa.  He holds a MA in Politics of Development from the Institute of Social Studies in the Hague, where he also spent a year as a research fellow.

Ignacio Saiz is Executive Director of the Center for Economic and Social Rights (CESR), an international NGO based in New York which works to advance human rights accountability in the sphere of socio-economic and development policy. CESR has undertaken research and advocacy on human rights abuses arising from unfair tax policies in both developing and high-income countries, and is campaigning actively for rights-based fiscal policy reforms in the context of the post-2015 sustainable development process.

Before joining CESR in 2006, Ignacio was Director of Policy at the International Secretariat of Amnesty International, where he developed Amnesty´s first program of work on economic, social and cultural rights. Prior to this, he served as Deputy Director of Amnesty International´s Americas Program, with responsibility for the organization´s human rights strategies in Mexico and Central America. He has also worked as an independent consultant for several other international human rights organizations in areas ranging from the prevention of torture and post-conflict accountability to sexuality and human rights.

Ignacio holds an LLM in international human rights law with distinction from the University of Essex. Academic publications on tax and human rights include ¨Resourcing Rights: Combating Tax Injustice from a Human Rights Perspective¨, in Nolan, O´Connell and Harvey (eds), Human Rights and Public Finance (Hart, Oxford, 2013).

Toby Sanger has worked as the economist for the Canadian Union of Public Employees since 2005, where he also produces its quarterly Economy at Work publication.

Prior to joining CUPE, he worked as chief economist for the Yukon Territory, chief economic policy advisor to the Ontario Finance Minister, and as an environmental economist. He is on the board of Canadians for Tax Fairness and a research associate for the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives, for which he has prepared the Fair Tax chapter for its Alternative Federal Budget. 

He has also written about taxation of the financial sector in Tax is Not a Four Letter Word, The Great Revenue Robbery  and Fair Shares: how the financial industry can pay fairer taxes and analyzed British Columbia’s carbon tax in Is BC’s Carbon Tax Fair?.

Lee Sheppard is a contributing editor of Tax Notes, a Washington-based weekly tax journal. Sheppard is one of the most widely read and respected tax commentators in the world. She has been a mainstay of Tax Analysts’ publications for 30 years.

Trained as a lawyer, Sheppard specializes in cutting-edge financial issues, such as derivatives and hedge funds, and taxation of multinational corporations. She is frequently asked to speak on tax subjects. She has appeared on television shows such as 60 Minutes and Frontline, as well as in the documentary We’re Not Broke. She also writes a blog for Forbes. Tax Analysts, the publisher of Tax Notes and related publications, is a nonprofit publisher that provides the latest and most in-depth tax information worldwide. www.taxanalysts.com.

Samuel Singer is a lawyer in the Montréal office of Stikeman Elliott and a member of the Tax Group. Prior to joining Stikeman Elliott, Mr. Singer served as a law clerk at the Tax Court of Canada for two years after articling at the National Judicial Institute. Mr. Singer is a member of the Quebec Bar, the Law Society of Upper Canada, the Canadian Tax Foundation, and the Young Bar Association of Montréal. He is currently doing a Masters in tax law at Osgoode Hall Law School, and holds LLM (2011) and a BCL/LLB (2009) from McGill University. During his legal studies, Mr. Singer coordinated a legal information clinic for non-profit organizations and charities at the Centre for Community Organizations in Montreal. Mr. Singer continues to be actively involved in the community sector.

Head of TJN Israel. Director of the Corporate Social Responsibility Institute and head of the Legal Clinic for Corporate Social Responsibility, both in the College of Law & Business. Senior fellow in the Shaharit think-tank. Dr. Sitbon has earned his Ph.D. from the Faculty of Law in the Tel Aviv University, where he also received his Master’s of Law (LL.M.) degree, graduating summa cum laude and first in his class. Prior to that, Dr. Sitbon graduated magna cum laude from a joint program between Hebrew University’s Faculty of Law and Department of Philosophy, which granted him both a Bachelor of Law (LL.B.) and a Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) degree. Dr. Sitbon was also the first the editor-in-chief of Ma’asei Mishpat: The Tel-Aviv University Journal of Law and Social Change.

Erika Dayle Siu is a Tax Policy Analyst and has worked for the United Nations, New Rules for Global Finance, and the International Centre for Taxation and Development. Her research with the UN Tax Committee focused on proposing recommendations for the UN Model Convention on the taxation of profits from emissions trading. At the UN Office for South-South Cooperation, Erika worked on a project to exchange successful tax practices among developing country tax administrations and facilitate technical cooperation partnerships through South-South cooperation. Her current research with the ICTD is an analysis of unitary taxation approaches in federal and regional integrated markets with a special focus on developing country regional economic communities such as the East African Community, ASEAN and Mercosur. Erika is a graduate of New York University Law School’s Graduate Tax Program and member of the New York Bar.

William Stephenson is the Editor-in-Chief of the McGill Law Journal. He graduated from the University of Ottawa summa cum laude with a BA in Classics and spent a year at the University of Virginia School of Law before continuing his law studies at McGill. He will article at the Montréal office of Clyde & Co in 2016.

Jean-Pierre Vidal has been teaching taxation at HEC Montreal since June 2002. He is a member of the Ordre des comptables professionnels agréés du Québec. He was a Licensed Certified Public Accountant (Illinois Department of Financial & Professional Regulation, U.S.A.) from November 27, 2006 to September 30, 2012, when he requested that his status become inactive as an Illinois CPA. He undertook the CICA’s “In Depth Tax Course” from 1997 to 1999. He earned a Ph.D. in economics from the University of Montreal in 1990, a M.Sc. in Economics from the University of Montreal in 1985, a Diploma from the Institut d'Études Politiques de Paris in 1981 and a B.A.A. (Finance) from the University of Sherbrooke in 1979.

He received several scholarships, including that of the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada and the Fonds pour la formation de chercheurs et l’aide à la recherche (Quebec). He is a member of the Association de planification fiscale et financière, the Canadian Tax Foundation and the International Fiscal Association.

His recent publications focus on transfer pricing and on ethics. He often publishes in the Revue de planification fiscale et financière (Canada). He has been published in InterTax (Europe), the BNA Transfer Pricing Report (United States), the Revue française de finances publiques and the Revue du financier (France), and in Éthique publique: revue internationale d’éthique sociétale et gouvernementale (Canada). He has contributed to several books. One of his publications has been translated into Spanish and has been published in Argentina. He teaches “International Tax” and “Research Methodology in Tax Law” for the D.E.S.S./LL.M, Taxation Option, a joint program given by HEC Montréal and the Law Faculty of the University of Montreal. In 2011, he was selected by Canada to join an Arbitration Board composed of three members to decide a dispute between Canada and the United States.

Dr Attiya Waris is a Senior Lecturer, Department of Commercial Law, University of Nairobi in Kenya and a Visiting Lecturer, National University of Rwanda. She is a member of the OECD Informal Task-force on Tax and Development and a member of the board of the Tax Justice Network as well as Lawyers for Better Business.

Dr Waris holds a PhD in Tax Law and Development from Lancaster University, UK and holds two Masters of Laws one in Human Rights and Democratisation in Africa from the University of Pretoria in South Africa and another in Business and Commercial Law from the University of London as well as an Undergraduate Honours Law degree from the University of Nairobi. She is the current Patron of the University of Nairobi Law Journal and co-editor of the Journal of Australian Taxation. She comes from a strong mixed practitioner and academic background, having worked in the UK as well as several countries in Africa in various diverse institutions including academic institutions, law firms, Non-Governmental Organisations as well as the United Nations.

She has published numerous articles and recently authored a book titled Tax and Development: Solving the Fiscal Crisis through Human Rights (2013) and co-edited a book titled Tax Justice & the Political Economy of Global Capitalism, 1945 to the Present (2013).

Duncan Wigan is Assistant Professor in International Political Economy in the Department of Business and Politics at the Copenhagen Business School.

He is Co-Investigator of the Systems of Tax Evasion and Laundering (STEAL) project funded by the Norwegian Research Council. Wigan has published on financial governance issues in New Political Economy, Competition and Change, Review of International Political Economy, Global Policy, Politik, and others.

He is co-editor of a special issue of Review of International Political Economy on Global Wealth Chains (2016).