Conference

Harvard CID & ITI Global Tax Policy Conference 2025
23 & 24 October 2025

Dates: Thursday, 23 & Friday, 24 October

Venue: Radisson Blu Royal Hotel, Dublin 8

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We are delighted to co-host the 5th Global Tax Policy Conference with Harvard Center for International Development on Thursday 23 and Friday 24 October 2025 in the Radisson Blu Royal Hotel, Dublin 8.

Minister for Finance, Paschal Donohoe TD, will open the Harvard CID & ITI Global Tax Policy Conference.

Join us to hear from our unique panel of global experts, including:

• Manal Corwin, Director, Centre for Tax Policy & Administration (CTPA), OECD
• Gerassimos Thomas, Director-General, Directorate-General Taxation and Customs Union, European Commission
• Danny Werfel, Former Commissioner, Internal Revenue Service (IRS)
• Benjamin Angel, Director, Directorate-General Taxation and Customs Union, European Commission
• Prof. Brian J. Arnold, Senior Adviser, Canadian Tax Foundation
• Alex Cobham, Chief Executive, Tax Justice Network, UK
• Clare Costello, Assistant Secretary, Department of Finance, Ireland
• Brendan Crowley, Senior Counsel, IMF
• Matthew Damone J.D., Principal, TP Practice Leader, Baker Tilly US
• Melissa Gierach, Managing Director, Tax Policy, DLA Piper US
• Karine Halimi-Guez, Group Head of Tax, Booking Holdings
• Bob Hamilton, Chair, OECD Forum on Tax Administration (FTA) & Commissioner of the Canada Revenue Agency
• Colm Kelly, Chair, FFS & Global Leader – Corporate Sustainability, PwC International Ltd
• Will Morris, Vice-Chair BIAC, OECD & Global Head of Tax Policy, PwC
• Nina Olson, Executive Director, Center for Taxpayer Rights, US
• Feargal O’Rourke, Chair, IDA Ireland
• Clodagh Power, Senior Climate & G20/G7 Advisor to Chief Economist, OECD
• Tim Power, Director for Business and International Tax, HM Treasury & Chair, Committee on Fiscal Affairs (CFA), OECD
• Prof. Jay Rosengard, Adjunct Lecturer in Public Policy, Harvard Kennedy School
• Chris Sanger, Global Government Tax Leader and UK Tax Policy Leader, Ernst & Young LLP
• Maria Elena Scoppio, Director, Directorate-General Taxation and Customs Union, European Commission
• Mekar Satria Utama, Director of International Taxation, Directorate General of Taxes, Indonesia

Topics includes:

1. Global Tax Policy – Where are we now, how did we get here and where are we going?
2. Global Tax Implementation: How do we make reform aspirations a reality?
3. Unravelling The Layers – Corporate tax complexity and (un)certainty
4. Universal Compliance, Enforcement, and Dispute Resolution – Is there a feasible global approach?
5. Global Mobility – Taxing “work” in a digital world
6. The Current “Climate” – Is tax policy being used to best effect for our planet?
7. The Future of Global Tax – striving for consistency, cohesion, and certainty

The conference will bring together leading experts, policymakers, revenue authorities, tax academics, corporates and practitioners from around the world to explore critical issues in global tax policy.

The conference fee includes attendance at our conference dinner in The Honorable Society of King’s Inns on the evening of Thursday, 23 October and lunch on both days. It does not include accommodation. If you wish to reserve accommodation at our conference rates, please click here.

Click here for a flavour of the last in-person Global Tax Policy Conference.

For any general queries or if you are booking this event for a colleague(s), please email full names and email addresses of delegates to conference@taxinstitute.ie

The conference is an in-person only event and please note if you can’t attend, you may nominate a colleague to take your place.

Please note the prices below are exclusive of VAT (VAT will be applied at checkout).

Start date & time
23rd October 2025 09:00

End date & time
24th October 2025 13:00

CPD Hours:

Venue:

Radisson Blu Royal Hotel
Dublin 8
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