Annual Report on Taxation Event 2024

Charles Vellutini is a senior economist in the Fiscal Affairs Department of the IMF. He has advised governments on tax policy and trade for over 15 years. He has assisted on improvements on the personal income tax, the VAT, SME taxation, tax expenditures and other tax policy topics. His research has covered the redistributive capacity of taxation, tax policy in fragile states and general equilibrium analysis of tax policy. He has consulted for the European Commission and the World Bank and taught at Toulouse School of Economics. He is a graduate from HEC Paris and earned his Ph.D. in economics from Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne.

Lidia Cruces is an Assistant Professor at Goethe University Frankfurt. She earned her PhD from the University of Carlos III in 2023. Her research focuses on family economics, gender economics, labor economics, and public policy. Besides her academic work, she is a board member of the European Association of Young Economists (EAYE), which aims to promote interactions among young, non-tenured researchers in economics.

Joanna Tyrowicz is a Professor of Economics at University of Warsaw and co-founder of research center FAME|GRAPE. She is also an IZA Research Fellow (Bonn). She earned her PhD in Economics in 2006 at Faculty of Economics, University of Warsaw, she also holds a degree from Katholike Universiteit Leuven. Between 2007 and 2017 she served as an Economic Advisor at Economic Institute of National Bank of Poland, specializing in labor market and household issues. As of 2022 she is serving on Monetary Policy Council. She worked at IAAE in Trier and IOS in Regensburg. She has been a consultant to The World Bank, OECD and the European Commission. She was a Fulbright Scholar at Columbia University, and a Mellon Fellow at the Netherlands Institute for Advanced Studies. 

Nadia Novik is the Topic Lead of the Taxation team within the Business Ready (B-READY) project at the World Bank. Prior to her current role, she led the Financial Services team in the same project at the time of its initial development. Mrs. Novik joined the World Bank in 2013, working on the Doing Business project, where she covered the Starting a Business and the Paying Taxes Indicators before taking on the role of leading the Getting Credit – Credit Information indicator. 

Dr. Andreas G. Koutoupis currently works as a Full Professor of Financial Accounting and Risk Based Auditing at the department of Accounting and Finance, University of Thessaly, Larissa-Greece. His research interests includes Accounting & Financial Reporting, Auditing, Internal Auditing, Internal Controls, Enterprise Risk Management and Corporate Governance.