Global Supervisory Committee 2026

Dr. Robert Danon

Dr. Robert Danon is a tenured Full Professor of Law and head of the Tax Policy Centre at the University of Lausanne. He chaired the Permanent Scientific Committee of the International Fiscal Association (IFA) from 2017 to 2025. His research focuses on international and comparative taxation, including tax treaties, transfer pricing, dispute prevention and resolution, and the interaction between tax disputes and investor–state dispute settlement. He is co-editor of forthcoming volumes on Tax Issues in International Investment Arbitration (Kluwer) and Tax Treaty Interpretation in Light of the Vienna Convention on the Law of Treaties (IFA).

Besides his academic endeavours, Dr Danon is also the founding partner of DANON, a boutique firm specialising in expert opinions, tax disputes and international arbitration. He regularly serves as an expert witness or consultant in domestic and international proceedings (ICSID, UNCITRAL), has acted in high‑profile investment treaty arbitrations, and appears on lists of potential arbitrators under selected bilateral tax treaties. At the national level, he advises on Swiss tax law, with expertise in corporate taxation, restructurings, individual taxation, criminal tax law, and administrative and constitutional matters. He has assisted in tax reform work, testified before parliamentary committees, and regularly contributes to OECD discussions on tax certainty, dispute resolution, and the global minimum tax.

Monique Van Herksen

Monique Van Herksen is an international tax counsel at Trafigura with extensive experience representing clients across jurisdictions. She is recognised as a highly regarded transfer pricing practitioner (ITR World 2025) and brings deep expertise in transfer pricing, international tax and law, audits, and dispute resolution. She also serves on the supervisory board of an international custody bank. As a member of the UN transfer pricing subcommittee, Monique developed guidance for APAs, guidance on transfer pricing for carbon offsets, and contributed the chapter on Financial Transactions to the UN Practical Manual on Transfer Pricing. She led work on the application and functioning of the Sixth Method and drafted the chapter on Transfer Pricing Methods for the Manual.

Dr. Vikram Chand

Prof. Dr. Vikram Chand is Professor of International Tax Law & Policy at the University of Lausanne (UNIL) and Program Director of UNIL’s Executive Program in Transfer Pricing. His research, teaching and consulting focus on Pillar Two (global minimum tax), Pillar One (Amount A and Amount B), transfer pricing, tax treaties, and tax controversy management, including the intersection of international tax law with other fields of international law. He has an extensive record of publications in leading peer‑reviewed journals and international books; his doctoral thesis was shortlisted for the Frans Vanistendael Award (IBFD).

At UNIL, he teaches Swiss Tax Law (French) at the bachelor level and International Tax Law at the master level, and he regularly contributes to executive education programs. Prof. Dr. Chand has trained senior tax and policy officials from jurisdictions across Asia, Europe, Africa and the Americas, and he frequently undertakes government and multilateral consultancy and capacity‑building projects. International law firms, Big Four firms and large multinational enterprises engage him for independent expert opinions and training on complex tax treaty and transfer pricing matters used in litigation, MAP, arbitration, advance rulings and bilateral APAs.

James Anderson

ames Anderson is the Europe Head of Tax at Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom. He has deep experience advising on private capital and asset‑management matters, with a particular focus on the establishment and ongoing operations of fund and asset‑management structures, and compensation arrangements for fund principals. His tax controversy work includes enquiries by UK revenue authorities, tax court litigation, disclosure programmes, transfer‑pricing disputes, APAs and MAPs, settlement negotiations and complex cross‑border tax disputes. He is regularly engaged by major law firms, multinational clients, and financial institutions on high‑stakes controversy and compliance matters.

James is active in professional and industry bodies: he sits on HMRC/HMT consultation groups for the UK fund management industry, is vice‑chair of the Tax Committee of the Alternative Investment Management Association (AIMA) and participates in International Bar Association and International Fiscal Association activities. Under his leadership, Skadden’s European tax practice has received multiple awards, including Best International Tax Team (Tolley’s Taxation Awards 2023), Transatlantic Tax Team of the Year (The American Lawyer/Legal Week, 2018), and other recognitions for the firm’s global tax practice.

Dr. Rafaelle Petruzzi

Dr. Raffaele Petruzzi is the Founder and CEO of PETRUZZI Advisory, an independent boutique specialising in transfer pricing, and Managing Director of the WU Transfer Pricing Centre at the Institute for Austrian and International Tax Law, WU (Vienna University of Economics and Business). He is also a member of the United Nations Subcommittee on Transfer Pricing. With almost 20 years’ experience across Big Four firms, international law firms and in‑house roles, Dr Petruzzi advises clients worldwide on complex international tax and transfer pricing matters, including services, financing, intangibles, business restructurings, permanent establishments, indirect taxes and digital business transformation. His practice covers risk management and compliance, international tax planning and strategy, valuation of companies and intangibles, tax audit defence, dispute‑avoidance mechanisms (rulings, APAs) and resolution (MAPs, arbitration), and tailored training for companies, advisors and tax administrations. He also supports governments on tax policy and capacity‑building to tackle tax evasion. An active academic and speaker, he lectures internationally, publishes widely, and collaborates with governments and multilateral organisations, including the OECD, UN, World Bank Group, IMF and European Commission. He is an editor of the Linde Transfer Pricing International Journal and a member of the IFA, IBA, and TPED.