Global Tax Dealmaker Saint-Amans Heads to Lausanne University

Pascal Saint-Amans, former director of the influential Centre for Tax Policy and Administration at the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, will join the University of Lausanne as a professor.

Saint-Amans, who will start Feb. 1, 2023, will focus on tax policy and international dispute resolution as part of the Swiss university’s Tax Policy Center, according to an announcement.

• He launched the OECD’s Base Erosion and Profit Shifting (BEPS) project to tackle international tax avoidance in 2012 and brokered last year’s landmark agreement among almost 140 countries and jurisdictions on a two-pillar reform of the international tax system.
• Saint-Amans ...