PUBLIC HEARING

IMPACT OF THE SCHEMES REVEALED BY THE PANAMA PAPERS ON DEVELOPING COUNTRIES

THURSDAY, 6 APRIL 2017

09.00 - 12.00

Room: Louise Weiss (LOW) N1.3 Strasbourg

CVS OF THE SPEAKERS

About Alvin Mosioma

Alvin Mosioma is the founding Executive Director of Tax Justice Network-Africa. Mr. Mosioma who served as the Chair of the Financial Transparency Coalition (FTC) is the leading voice on tax policy in Africa has spear headed numerous civil society campaigns in Africa since 2007.

Mr Mosioma was nominated to join Open Government Partnership a member of the steering committee. Mr. Mosioma serves a member of the advisory board for Plateforme de Protection des Lanceurs d’Alerte en Afrique (PPLAAF) Over the 8 past years, Mr. Mosioma has written a number of informative articles and reports on fiscal policy in Africa. He has also co-authored two books on taxation and development in Africa. Mr. Mosioma is widely traveled has given lectures and speeches on taxation and financing for Development in Africa in various international conferences and other forums. He holds a Master degree in Economics from the Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz and has special interest areas include fiscal policy, international taxation, financial regulation and natural resource governance. Short biography of Mallam Nuhu Ribadu

Nuhu Ribadu is the founding chairman of the 's anticorruption agency, the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC).

Prior to his appointment as the Chairman of the EFCC, Mr. Ribadu served as a leading prosecutor with the Nigerian Police Force. He was also involved in several high profile investigations and prosecutions in his over two decades in the Police.

Mr. Ribadu was called to the Nigerian Bar in 1984 and immediately after enlisted into the Police. He holds a Masters degree in Jurisprudence of Corruption from the , .

Mr. Ribadu was a Senior Fellow at St. Anthony’s College, Oxford University, as well as a visiting fellow at the Center for Global Development, Washington, DC.

He was appointed United Nations Senior Monitor in Afghanistan in 2011, a position he held until he was invited by the Federal Government of Nigeria to head the Special Task Force on the Recovery of Petroleum Revenue in 2012.

A recipient of several national and international awards, Ribadu has been in partisan politics since retirement from the as an Assistant Inspector General of Police in 2008.