CURICULUM VITÆ

A. PERSONAL DATA

1. Name Eduart 2. Surname GJOKUTAJ 3. Sex Gender Male 4. Birthday 21/04/1970 5. Place of birthday Vlora, 6. Address Him Kolli St., P.No.48, apt.21 7. Years of Employment 21 years 8. Actual Social status Married ( 1 children) 9. Nationality Albanian

Studied Economics at the University of , 1989 -1993

1993-2013, he has worked at the Central Tax Administration, where he has held various positions ranging from Inspector to Department Director. In 2013, he has been responsible for the Risk Management sector at the same institution.

Founder and a contributor to the Centre of Economic and Fiscal Research "AL-TAX", which strengthens education and brings awareness to taxpayers about economic and fiscal problems and increases budget transparency in support of public debate.

Local contributor to the Albania section of the World Bank’s "Doing Business" report for many years and has authored numerous publications and contributed regularly to the business press.

Active role and written official documents in numerous working groups of international organizations like the International Monetary Fund, SIDA and the Intra-European Organization of Tax Administrations (IOTA).

November 2013 -2014 worked as Adviser in the cabinet of Minister of Finance.

Since December 2014 works as Fiscal Adviser in Ministry of Energy and Industry

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A. QUALIFICATION DATA

No. Institution Type of qualification Date

1. IOTA* Human resources development in public administration 10/2002

2. OECD Transfer pricing and audit of multinationals companies 10/2003

3. OECD Tax Administration VAT 06/2006

4. ITAP-AL Operation Management Program 06/2006

5. IOTA Risk analysis methodologies 02/2005

6. IOTA Tax audit for construction industry 09/2007

7. IOTA Task Team for subcontractors in construction Industry and fraud 01/2008 schemes

8. IOTA Coo-author with 7 member states authors in working paper issued by 09/2009 IOTA in TAX TRIBUNE MAGAZINE “Subcontractors in construction Industry”

9. IOTA Tax risk analysis; Risk Management; Tax audit methodologies; Tax 2009- services for taxpayers 2012

10. OECD Transfer pricing on immovable assets 2011

11. CEF** Compliance Risk Management 2011

12. CEF Compliance Risk Management 2012

13. MCE*** Leadership Development Program 06/2014

14. LEAD Program for leadership (similar to White House Fellows Program) 2013- Albania 2014 *Intra-European Tax Administration (www.iota-tax.org) ** Centre of Excellence in Finance (www.cef-see.org) ***Management Center Europe (www.mce-ama.com) B. SKILLS

PUBLIC CONTRIBUTION

No. Analysis Publisher Name Quantity Period

Employment status contribution

1. Manual with Industrial notes for construction Industry For 37 tax 11/2006 SIDA (Sweden) offices in ( A knowledge book for all the parties that 2 | P a g e

assistance participate in this economic sector) Albania

2. Manual Tax Audit Manual for Large Taxpayer Office and For 10 tax 11/2007 other main tax branch offices across the Albania. offices

3. Official -for analysis of balance sheet statement For 37 tax 2003, documents offices in - for dividend and withholding tax Albania 2004, and - for small business administration 2005, Instructions - for Large Taxpayer Unit administration 2006,

- for construction, oil industry, and tobacco 2007, - for intellectual property tax treatment 2008, - for tax audit administration and risk analysis methodology 2009,

- for performance measurement in tax Executive administration Orders 2010 - for re-audit in tax audit of taxpayers 2010 - for risk management 2011 - report of tax administration activity

- Strategic Planning 2011-2014 of Central Tax Strategy Administration 2011 Plans - Compliance Risk Management, 2014-2016 2012 (assisted by IMF experts)

2013 - Action Plan of Compliance Risk Management for Tax Administration, 2014-2016

PERSONAL AND PRIVATE CONTRIBUTION

1. Articles, EKONOMIA (Economic Albanian Newspaper) Over 200 2002- Working articles, working continue BIZNESI (Entrepreneur Albanian Newspaper) Papers and papers, studies, (in Albanian and studies Daily Newspapers English) SHQIP, , SHQIPTARJA.COM,

STANDARD, ,

MONITOR (Economic Albanian Magazine)

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TAX TRIBUNE (IOTA Magazine)

EZINEARTICLES.COM

SSRN.COM

ARTICLEBASE.COM

2. Book Economic Eye in Democracy (Albanian version) In Albanian 12/ 2005

3. Book Tax Power (Volume 1, 2 and 3) In Albanian 07/2007

4. Book Tax performance in Albania, 1994-2011 In Albanian and 2014 English

5. Book Economic Inequality, Budget Health and In English 2014 Leadership 6. Book Taxes in Albania, 2008-2010 In Albanian and 2014 English

7. Consultant Contribute for the “Doing Business”, (IFC) 4 editions 2010-2014

8. Advise and Post-graduate students, experts, students, Al-tax.org 2003- Mentoring foreign organization, private companies continue

C. FOREIGN LANGUAGES

1. English (excellent written and talk)

2. Italian (excellent written and talk)

Tirana, January 2015

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