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FACULTY OF Profiles L AW MSC TAXATION CLASS OF 2020/21 www.law.ox.ac.uk CLASS OF 2020/21 MSC TAXATION 1 MSC TAXATION PROFILE CLASS OF 2020/21 INTRODUCTION ABOUT THE PROGRAMME The Law Faculty and the Centre for Business The Oxford MSc in Taxation is a two-year part-time Taxation are very pleased to welcome the fifth postgraduate degree offered by the Oxford University cohort of students onto the MSc in Taxation in Faculty of Law, and is taught in association with the September 2020. Oxford University Centre for Business Taxation based at Saïd Business School. Once again, we are delighted to have an excellent group of students from a wide range Unusual among Taxation degrees, the MSc in Taxation of countries and with different backgrounds has been designed by a combination of lawyers and including law, accountancy, economics and economists. The teaching is carried out by a team of finance. This diversity continues to be a strength of the programme and will enhance leading tax academics and practitioners. An element of your experience at Oxford. This profile book interdisciplinarity runs through the whole degree and, in showcases your diverse and impressive profiles. addition, its in-built flexibility allows students to tailor their studies to their individual preferences. We are certain that your two years at Oxford will be enriching and rewarding, and we very much The increased focus on taxation by politicians and the look forward to getting to know and to work media, as well as the ever-increasing technical demands with you. of the subject and the pace of change at an international level, means that there has never been a more important Tsilly Dagan, Michael Devereux, time to study taxation from a range of perspectives. This Glen Loutzenhiser & John Vella is the experience that the Oxford MSc in Taxation offers. MSc in Taxation Course Directors Class Size Students Nationalities Age Range Average Age coming 41 from Work 26 21-58 32 72% Follow us and join the conversation Disclaimer: This profile book has been compiled from the submissions of the individuals represented in the book, who www.facebook.com/OxfordLawFaculty are solely responsible for the accuracy of the information they have provided. While this information is believed to www.linkedin.com/groups/Oxford-University-Lawyers be accurate, it is made available without any responsibility www.twitter.com/OxfordLawFac on the part of the University of Oxford, which makes no representations about its veracity. 2 MSC TAXATION CLASS OF 2020/21 CLASS OF 2020/21 MSC TAXATION 3 A RUPERT AGIUS-PEASE UK SHAMMAS AZAD UK [email protected] • Harris Manchester College [email protected] • Harris Manchester College EDUCATION CAREER AND RESEARCH INTERESTS EDUCATION .................................................................................................................................................................................................. HARVARD BUSINESS SCHOOL, USA, EXECUTIVE Taxation, including personal and corporate, trusts and estates, THE UNIVERSITY OF LAW, UK, LLB (HONS) LAW INTERN, RYWANT, ALVAREZ, RUSSO, JONES & GUYTON, inheritance tax planning EDUCATION (02/2017) (05/2020) P.A, USA .................................................................................................................................................................................................. Graduated with First Class Honours - top 5% of class, Awarded ADDITIONAL INFORMATION INSTITUTE OF CHARTERED ACCOUNTANTS IN ENGLAND DWF LLP Award - Highest Mark Overall for the LLB CAREER AND RESEARCH INTERESTS Presented on a number of occasions at KPMG (2014-2018), AND WALES, UK, ACA (05/2011) Cross-border M&A; International Corporate taxation; US Grant Thornton (1999-2010) and Canadian Institute of Corporate and Commercial Governance .................................................................................................................................................................................................. Chartered Accountants (2009) tax conferences. Past member EMPLOYMENT CANADIAN INSTITUTE OF CHARTERED ACCOUNTANTS, of the Tax Executives Institute Corporate Income Tax Advisory M&A CORPORATE INTERN, BBH, ADVOKÁTNÍ ADDITIONAL INFORMATION Committee in Canada CANADA, CHARTERED ACCOUNTANCY (11/2001) KANCELÁŘ, S.R.O., CZECH REPUBLIC General Officer - The Bar Society Providing tax advice on cross-border corporate law and EMPLOYMENT financing transactions. Advising on M&A deals and corporate restructuring projects; working with the largest Czech DIRECTOR, ARIES ACCOUNTANTS LIMITED, UK businesses, international corporations and investment .................................................................................................................................................................................................. companies to connect large European investors with Czech and PARTNER, HEAD OF TAX, KPMG LLP, MIDDLE EAST EU opportunities Managed and developed the tax function in 12 countries of this .................................................................................................................................................................................................. Big 4 professional services firm in the Middle East and South TAX INTERN, CAREY, O’MALLEY, WHITAKER, MUELLER, Asia ROBERTS & SMITH P.A, USA .................................................................................................................................................................................................. National and International Corporate tax advisory and VICE PRESIDENT, GLOBAL HEAD OF TAX, SNC LAVALIN compliance projects for multinational companies; tax GROUP INC., CANADA governance framework; transfer pricing and tax operational risk Managed the tax function of Canada’s largest engineering management and oil and gas company with a footprint in more than 100 countries B BIMBO ATILOLA NIGERIA ALESSANDRO BACCI ITALY [email protected] • St Hugh’s College • Yoruba [email protected] • Harris Manchester College • Italian, French, Arabic (Lebanese) EDUCATION CAREER AND RESEARCH INTERESTS EDUCATION PUBLICATIONS UNIVERSITY OF LAGOS, NIGERIA, LAW (09/2004) Taxation, Labour and Employment Law; law of taxation LEE KUAN YEW SCHOOL OF PUBLIC POLICY, Alessandro Bacci, “A Snapshot of South Sudan’s Oil Sector”, Oil .................................................................................................................................................................................................. NUS, SINGAPORE, MASTER IN PUBLIC POLICE & Gas Council (2018) ADDITIONAL INFORMATION LAGOS STATE UNIVERSITY, NIGERIA, LAW (10/1998) (INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS) (8/2008) Alessandro Bacci, “Algeria’s and Libya’s Petroleum Fiscal 4th overall best in the 1998 graduating set of the Law Faculty Recognised as a labour and employment lawyer in Nigeria by 4.08/5.00 Frameworks”, Oil & Gas Council (2018) of Lagos State University reputable global rating institutions including Who is Who Legal. .................................................................................................................................................................................................. Alumnus of Lagos Business School. Alessandro Bacci, “Iraq’s Fifth Licensing Round: Some Preliminary SCIENCES PO PARIS, FRANCE, MASTER IN PUBLIC Considerations After the Auction”, Iraq Business News (2018) EMPLOYMENT AFFAIRS (6/2008) Graduated cum laude MANAGING PARTNER, HYBRID SOLICITORS, NIGERIA ADDITIONAL INFORMATION Co-ordination of the firm’s Litigation and ADR Practice .................................................................................................................................................................................................. Member of the Association of International Petroleum UNIVERSITY OF FLORENCE, ITALY, LLB AND LLM Negotiators PUBLICATIONS (INTERNATIONAL LAW) (07/2005) UK-Chartered Journalist (Chartered Institute of Journalists) Bimbo Atilola, Managing Expatriates In Employment: Legal, HR & Tax Perspectives, (Hybrid Consult, 2016) EMPLOYMENT Bimbo Atilola (ed), Recent Developments in Nigerian Labour and SENIOR PETROLEUM LEGAL ANALYST, IHS MARKIT, UK Employment Law, (Hybrid Consult, 2017) Analyzing, advising on, and negotiating legal and fiscal terms Bimbo Atilola, Nigerian Tax Law Reports (1960-2010), (Hybrid concerning petroleum investments in the Middle East and North Consult, 2010) Africa .................................................................................................................................................................................................. PETROLEUM FISCAL ANALYST, GLOBALDATA, UK .................................................................................................................................................................................................. INDEPENDENT PETROLEUM CONSULTANT, SELF- EMPLOYED, ITALY, LEBANON, USA, CANADA, AND UK 4 MSC TAXATION CLASS OF 2020/21 CLASS OF 2020/21 MSC TAXATION 5 TOMAS BURY CZECHIA JEE YOON CHUNG UK [email protected] • Harris Manchester College • German, Czech [email protected] • St Hugh’s College • Korean EDUCATION .................................................................................................................................................................................................. EDUCATION UNIVERSITY OF ECONOMICS IN PRAGUE, FACULTY OF RESEARCH ASSOCIATE, ASSOCIATION FOR