Delegation of Eminent Thai Judges Participate in International Tax Program

Alan Bennett is an international trade lawyer and principal of Alan Bennett Legal, Sydney, Australia. He is an adjunct lecturer in the University of Sydney Law School's post-graduate faculty where he teaches courses in international trade and customs law.

Mark Brabazon, QC (BA, LLM Qld, PhD Syd) was called to the bar in Queensland in 1984 and in New South Wales in 1988. He took silk in 2008. He has also worked as a legal researcher at the High Court, a law lecturer and a solicitor. Before commencing legal practice, he was associate to Dunn J. His main areas of professional practice are taxation, commercial law and equity. He has a particular professional and academic interest in tax policy, international taxation and the taxation of trusts. He advises and appears for both taxpayers and revenue authorities.

Celeste Black (BA Harvard, JD Penn, LLM (Hons) Syd, PhD Macquarie) is an Associate Professor in the University of Sydney Law School. She is a member of the Parsons Centre of Commercial, Corporate and Taxation Law, the Australian Centre for Climate and Environmental Law and a founding and executive member of the University's Human Animal Research Network. Celeste teaches and researches in taxation law, with particular interests in tax administration, international tax, and the interaction between taxation law and policy and environmental law. She recently completed her PhD on the domestic and international tax implications of carbon trading transactions. Celeste is a member of the Law Council of Australia Tax Subcommittee and the Australia Branch of the International Fiscal Association.

Micah Burch joined the University of Sydney Law School in 2010 after teaching at New York University School of Law from 2006 to 2009. Prior to academia, Micah practiced tax law at large corporate law firms in New York City and co-founded an independent publishing house specialisingin translations of popular Japanese books. A former Fulbright Fellow and graduate of Princeton University (magna cum laude, East Asian Studies) and Harvard Law School (cum laude), Micah teaches and researches in a range of areas, primarily domestic and international income tax law and not-for-profit law.

Graeme Cooper studied tax in Australia and the United States and holds a doctorate in law from Columbia University. He has taught tax in Law Schools in Australia, Europe and the United States. His principal research and teaching focus is domestic corporate taxation, comparative tax law and tax policy. He is the director of the Ross Parsons Centre of Commercial, Corporate and Taxation Law at the University of Sydney.

Richard J Vann is Challis Professor of Law at the University of Sydney. In 2006 he was William K Jacobs Jr Visiting Professor at Harvard Law School and he has taught regularly at New York University School of Law and the School of Advanced Study, University of London. He specialisesin corporate, comparative and international taxation. He is a graduate of the University of Queensland, Australia and Oxford University, UK.

Michael Dirkis is a Professor in tax law at the University of Sydney Law School. A noted researcher, he has authored and co-authored over 600 publications and papers. He has been engaged with taxation law for over 30 years through his roles within the Australian Taxation Office, the academy and the private sector. From May 1999 until October 2009 he was, as Senior Tax Counsel for the Tax Institute, in the forefront of the all major tax reform and taxation administration reforms through participation in key Australian governmental consultative forums conducted by the Treasury, Australian Taxation Office, the Board of Taxation, the Inspector General of Taxation and the Australian National Audit Office and appearing before numerous Parliamentary committees.

Melissa Ogier is an official of the Australian Taxation Office with special responsibilities for corporate international taxation including double tax agreements, financing structures and transfer pricing. Melissa has worked for multi-national corporations and has spent most of her career working for a big-4 advisory firm, before joining the Australian Taxation Office in 2014. She is also an adjunct lecturer at the University of Sydney teaching transfer pricing. Melissa’s current research is focused on the arm’s length principle and its ability to allocate profits in line with MNE value creation.

Chloe Burnett (B Comm, LLB Syd, LLM NYU) practices as a barrister in Sydney where she works in commercial and public law, with a specialisationin tax law. Chloe also has an extensive advisory and alternative dispute resolution practice. Before becoming a barrister Chloe was a solicitor at Allensand worked as an Associate to the HonourableJustice Edmonds of the Federal Court. She has also worked for Macquarie Bank in Sydney and Slaughter and May in London. Chloe has expertise in international tax and she is an active member of the International Fiscal Association.