Presentations
Day 1 - Wednesday, 7 December 2011
Session I - CONFERENCE OPENING SPEECHS
Pranab Mukherjee
Finance Minister, India
Min Zhu
Deputy Managing Director, IMF
Wang Jun
Vice-Minister of Finance, China
Session II - INEQUALITY: MAIN TRENDS AND CHALLENGES
Carlo Cottarelli – Director, Fiscal Affairs Department, IMF
Ajay Chhibber – UNDP Assistant Administrator and UN Assistant Secretary-General
Session III - TAXES AND INEQUALITY
Jeffrey Owens – Director, Centre for Tax Policy and Administration, OECD
Anita Kapur – Director General of Income Tax (Administration), Ministry
of Finance, India
Ivan Pillay – Deputy Commissioner, Revenue Service, South Africa
Session IV - INCOME TAXES AND INEQUALITY: REGIONAL EXPERIENCES
Jorge Martinez-Vazquez – Professor of Economics, Georgia State University,
US
Juan Pablo Jimenez – Economic Affairs Officer, UN Economic Commission for
Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC)
Cyn-Young Park – Assistant Chief Economist, Asian Development Bank (ADB)
Session V.1 - CONSUMPTION TAXATION AND INEQUALITY
Alberto Barreix – Principal Fiscal Economist, Inter-American Development
Bank
Carlos Gerardo Acevedo Florez – President of the Central Bank, El Salvador
Amadou Bâ – Commissioner General, Revenue Authority, Senegal
Session V.2 - TAXATION OF SMALL BUSINESS AND FAIRNESS
Michael Engelschalk – Senior Revenue Policy and Administration Expert, World
Bank
Rajit Punhani – Commissioner, Bihar Tax Department, India
Abdellatif Zaghnoun – Commissioner General, Ministry of Finance, Morocco
Day 2 – Thursday, 8 December 2011
Session VI. TAX ADMINISTRATION, POVERTY AND INEQUALITY
Allen Kagina
– Commissioner General, Revenue Authority, Uganda
M. C. Joshi
– Chairman Central Board of Direct Taxes, Ministry of Finance, India
Session VII.1 GENDER, TAXATION AND INEQUALITY
Vicky Perry – Head of Tax Policy Division, Fiscal Affairs Department, IMF
David Nguyen-Thanh – Senior Economist, Public Policy of the Governance and
Democracy Division, GIZ
Session VII.2 LABOUR MOBILITY, TAXATION AND EQUALITY
Blanca Moreno-Dodson - Lead Economist, World Bank Group
Valerica Epure – Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Romania
to India, Romania
Session VIII.1 REAL PROPERTY TAX AND INEQUALITY
Cristina Arango – Secretary of Urban Planning for Bogota, Colombia
Patrick Kassera – Commissioner, Domestic Revenue Department, Revenue Authority,
Tanzania
Document - REAL PROPERTY TAXATION AND INEQUALITY, Domestic Revenue Department, Revenue Authority,
Tanzania
Luis Porto
(Spanish) – Vice-Minister of Economy and Finance, Uruguay
Pascal K. Abinan - Director of Fiscal Administration, Côte d'Ivoire
Session VIII.2 DEALING WITH LOW INCOME TAXPAYERS
Kakha Baindurashvili – President of Chamber of Commerce and Industry and
Former Minister of Finance, Georgia
James Brumby – Manager, Public Sector Governance Group, World Bank
Celestin Bumbakare – Commissioner for Domestic Taxes, Revenue Authority,
Rwanda
Session IX.1 WEALTH AND INHERITANCE TAXES
Christian Valenduc – Senior Advisor, Federal Public Service of Finance,
Belgium
Jean-Marc Fenet – Deputy Director General of Public Finance, France
Edwin Visser – Deputy Director General, Tax & Customs Policy and Legislation;
and Director for International Tax Policy and Legislation, Ministry of Finance,
Netherlands
Session IX.2 A MORE DETAILED LOOK AT TAXES AND GROWTH
Christopher Heady – Professor of Economics, University of Kent, UK
Michael Waweru – Commissioner General, Revenue Authority, Kenya
Day 3 – Friday, 9 December 2011
Session X. HIGH NET WORTH INDIVIDUALS, TRANSPARENCY AND INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION
Mark Konza
– Deputy Commissioner, Australian Taxation Office, Australia
K. V. Chowdary
– Director General of Income Tax (Investigation) New Delhi, Ministry of Finance, India
Session XI.1 INTERACTION OF TAX AND AID
Sanjeev Gupta
- Deputy Director in the Fiscal Affairs Department, IMF
Kenneth Matupa
– Acting Director Ministry of Finance and Development Planning
Session XI.2 INTERGENERATIONAL ASPECTS OF INEQUALITY
Michael Keen
– Deputy Director, Fiscal Affairs Department, IMF
Anders Kristoffersson
– Director of the Tax Policy Division and Deputy Head, Tax
Ismail Momoniat
– Deputy Director-General, Economic Policy, National Treasury, South Africa
IMPLICATIONS OF THE CONFERENCE CONCLUSIONS FOR THE FUTURE ITD WORK PROGRAM
Presentation on the ITD