Paul Oosterhuis is an internationally recognized senior tax practitioner with extensive experience in cross-border mergers and acquisitions, post-acquisition integration, spin-offs, internal restructurings and joint ventures. He also represents multinational companies in nontransactional international tax planning and assists clients in resolving high-stakes, complex tax controversies.
Wolfgang Schön is the Director of the Department of Business and Tax Law at the Max Planck Institute for Tax Law and Public Finance in Munich and Honorary Professor at Munich University. Before joining the Max Planck Society in 2002, Schön held full professorships at the University of Bielefeld (1992 – 1996) and the University of Bonn (1996 – 2002). Wolfgang Schön has been a visiting professor at Tilburg University, Vienna University of Business and Economics, NYU, Columbia University, University of Pennsylvania, University of British Columbia, the Universities of Antwerp and Liège and Bocconi University (Milan).
He was a Member of the Board of Trustees of the International Bureau of Fiscal Documentation (Amsterdam) and is an International Research Fellow at the Oxford University Centre for Business Taxation. He was Chairman of the Board of the European Association of Tax Law Professors, Chairman of the Scientific Committee of the German Tax Law Association and the Vice-Chair of the Permanent Scientific Committee of the International Fiscal Association.
From 2008 – 2014 he served as Vice President of the Max Planck Society, from 2014 – 2021 as Vice President of the German Research Foundation.
Professor Miranda Stewart LLD is a Professor specialising in taxation law at the University of Melbourne Law School and a Visiting Professor at New York University School of Law, where she directs the International Tax program. Professor Stewart is also an Honorary Professor at the Tax and Transfer Policy Institute, the Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National University. Professor Stewart researches and teaches on a range of international and domestic tax law topics, including her leading book Tax and Government in the 21st Century (2022, Cambridge University Press).
Edoardo Traversa is Professor of Tax Law at UCLouvain (Belgium), where he currently serves as Dean of the Faculty of Law and Criminology. Alongside his appointment at UCLouvain, he is Visiting Professor at KU Leuven, WU Vienna and the University of Luxembourg, and Lecturer at the University of Oxford. He also maintains an active legal practice at the Brussels Bar as Of Counsel with the Arteo law firm.
His academic and professional practice focus on European and international taxation, EU indirect taxation—particularly value added tax—environmental taxation, constitutional tax law, and tax policy. Over the years, he has been closely involved in policy-making processes, serving on several advisory bodies for both European and Belgian institutions, including the EU VAT Expert Group, the EU Platform for Good Tax Governance, and the Belgian High Council of Finance. He was voted Tax Professional of the Year in Belgium in 2024.
He regularly authors or edits scientific publications. His recent and forthcoming works include Abuse of Law in European Taxation (with W. Schön and I. Richelle, 2025), the third edition of the Handbook on Value-Added Taxation: Belgian and EU Law (with M. Lamensch and Ch. Herbain, forthcoming 2026, French edition), and the second edition of the Research Handbook on European Taxation Law (with W. Haslehner and Chr. Panayi, forthcoming 2026).
Beyond his academic and professional commitments, he enjoys time spent with his family, particularly with his four children. He is also an amateur musician and singer, with a keen interest in languages and literature of all kinds and a moderate passion for sports such as basketball and tennis.
