Title：The United Nations and international tax law – the 2025 update of the UN Model and the UN's international tax policy leadership aspirations

Speaker: Kees van Raad Past Professor of International Tax Law at the University of Leiden, Chairman of the International Tax Center Leiden 

Moderator: Liao Yixin  Professor, Doctoral Supervisor, Xiamen University School of Law; Director of the Tax Law Teaching and Research Section

Language：English

Date and Time: February 22, 2025, 09.00

Venue: Classroom A138, School of Law

About the Speaker

Kees van Raad is the chairman of the International Tax Center Leiden, past Professor of International Tax Law at the University of Leiden and of counsel to Loyens & Loeff. He has been a member of IBFD’s Board of Trustees and belongs to the steering group for OECD’s International Network for Tax Research. Further, he is chairman of the International Fiscal Association’s Jury for the annual Mitchell B. Carroll Prize; past member (1986-2006) of its Permanent Scientific Committee, general reporter, member/chair of various IFA congress panels; and since August 2016 an Honorary Member of IFA. He was a member (1999-2012) and chairman (2006-2012) of the Executive Board of the European Association of Tax Law Professors and a member (2003-2015) of the Supervisory Board of the Max Planck Institute for Tax Law and Public Finance in Munich, Germany. In 1986 he obtained at Leiden University a doctorate in law (dissertation: Nondiscrimination in International Tax Law [Kluwer, 1986]) and has published widely on international tax law issues in general and tax treaties in particular and has taught at many foreign universities.