Pascal Saint-Amans took on his duties as Director of the Center for Tax Policy and Administration at the OECD on 1 February 2012. Mr. Saint-Amans, a French national, joined the OECD in September 2007 as Head of the International Co-operation and Tax Competition Division in the CTPA. He played a key role in the advancement of the OECD tax transparency agenda in the context of the G20. In October 2009 he was appointed Head of the Global Forum Division, created to service the Global Forum on Transparency and Exchange of Information for Tax Purposes, a programme with the participation of over 100 countries.
Mr. Saint-Amans graduated from the National School of Administration (ENA) in 1996, and was an official in the French Ministry for Finance for nearly a decade. He held various positions within the Treasury, including heading the supervision of the EU work on direct taxes and overseeing legislation and policy on wealth tax and mergers and spin offs. He was also the head of tax treaty negotiations and mutual agreement procedures. In this capacity, he participated in the OECD Working Party No. 1 of the Committee on Fiscal Affairs as the delegate for France before being elected Chair of WP1 in 2005. He was also a member of the UN Group of Experts on International Co-operation in Tax Matters, becoming a “rapporteur” in 2006. Before leaving government service, he was Deputy Director in charge of litigation at the Direction Générale des Impôts.
Mr. Saint-Amans also served as Financial Director of the Energy Regulation Committee between 1999 and 2002 and was responsible for the introduction of new electricity tariffs.
Having earned a degree in history, Mr. Saint-Amans also received a degree from the Institut d’études politiques of Paris.
Dimitri Zenghelis is Senior Advisor for the Wealth Economy Project, which he previously led, centred at the Bennett Institute, Cambridge University and a Senior Visiting Fellow at the London School of Economics. He headed the Stern Review Team at the Office of Climate Change and was a lead author on the Stern Review on the Economics of Climate Change. Previously he was Head of Economic Forecasting at HM Treasury.
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Lord Stern is the IG Patel Professor of Economics and Government, Chairman of the Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment and Head of the India Observatory at the London School of Economics. He was President of the Royal Economic Society (2018-19) and President of the British Academy (2013- 2017). He was elected Fellow of the Royal Society (June 2014). He has held academic appointments in the UK at Oxford, Warwick, the LSE and abroad at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, the Ecole Polytechnique and the Collège de France in Paris, the Indian Statistical Institute in Bangalore and Delhi, and the Peopleʼs University of China in Beijing. He was Chief Economist of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development 1994-1999, and Chief Economist and Senior Vice President at the World Bank, 2000-2003. He was knighted in 2004, made a cross-bench life peer in 2007 and appointed Companion of Honour in 2017 for services to economics, international relations and tackling climate change.
Tracey Burns is a Senior Analyst in the OECD's Centre for Educational Research and Innovation. She heads a portfolio of projects including Innovative Teaching for Effective Learning, 21st Century Children, and Trends Shaping Education. Until recently she was also responsible for their work on Governing Complex Education systems. Previous to her time at the OECD she worked on social determinants of health and well-being. As a Post-Doctoral Fellow at The University of British Colombia, Dr. Burns led a research team investigating newborn infants' responses to language, and was an award-winning lecturer on infant and child development. She is the recipient of numerous awards and honours, including The University of British Colombia Post-Doctoral Fellowship and the American Psychological Association Dissertation Research Awards. Tracey holds a B.A. from McGill University, Canada, and an M.A. and Doctor of Philosophy in psychology from Northeastern University, USA.
Oriana Romano
Head of Unit, Water Governance and Circular Economy, Centre for Entrepreneurship, SMEs, Cities and Regions, OECD
Dr Oriana Romano is the Head of Unit, Water Governance and Circular Economy in Cities in the OECD Centre for Entrepreneurship, SMEs, Cities and Regions. She set up the OECD Programme on the Circular Economy in Cities and Regions, supporting governments towards the transition to the circular economy. She has led multiple circular economy policy dialogues and created the OECD Roundtable on the Circular Economy in Cities and Regions.
Dorothee Allain-Dupré & Isabelle Chatry and Sean Dougherty & Camila Vammalle
Regional Development Policy Committee & Fiscal Network, OECD
Dorothée Allain-Dupré is Deputy Head of the Economic Analysis, Statistics and Multi-level Governance Division of the OECD Centre for SMEs, Entrepreneurship, Regions and Cities. She oversees the programme of work on multi-level governance, decentralisation, public investment and subnational finance. Email: Dorothee.Allain-Dupre@oecd.org ///
Isabelle Chatry is Senior Policy Analyst, Centre for Entrepreneurship, SMEs, Regions and Cities, OECD. Her current work focuses on multi-level governance, decentralization and sub-national public finance. Email: Isabelle.Chatry@oecd.org ///
Sean Dougherty is Senior Advisor and Head of Secretariat for the Network on Fiscal Relations, where he gives policy advice on fiscal federalism, productivity and inclusive growth. The OECD’s Fiscal Network shares best practices on fiscal relations across levels of government and examines related public policies. Email: Sean.Dougherty@oecd.org ///
Camila Vammalle has ten years' experience at the OECD, where she has been contributing the Network on Fiscal Relations across Levels of Government. She has worked in different fields such as public governance, fiscal federalism, sub-national public finances and in particular sub-national debts and fiscal rules for sub-national governments, public budgeting and fiscal sustainability of health systems. Email: Camila.Vammalle@oecd.org ///
James Wallman is a bestselling author, entrepreneur, futurist, keynote speaker, and government adviser. He has written two bestselling books about the experience economy, Stuffocation (Penguin, 2015) and Time And How To Spend It (Penguin, 2019). The Financial Times named Time And How To Spend It one of the ‘must read’ Books Of The Year 2019 [see also www.timeandhowtospendit.com].
James runs the strategy, innovation, and futures consultancy The Future is Here. His opinions have appeared in the New York Times, the Financial Times, the Economist, and Wired.He advises the British government on the experience economy: he is a 'Sector Specialist, Experience Economy' at the UK's Department for International Trade.
Gabriela Ramos
Assistant Director General on Social and Human Sciences at UNESCO & former OECD Chief of Staff, OECD
Gabriela Ramos is Assistant Director General on Social and Human Sciences at UNESCO.
Previously, she served as OECD Chief of Staff and Sherpa to the G20 and in this capacity supported the Secretary General’s strategic leadership and ensured that the Organisation delivered on its mandates. She was responsible for the contributions of the OECD to the global agenda, including to the G20, G7, and APEC. She also oversaw the Global Relations Secretariat, which works with over 100 countries around the world. Her work as Sherpa contributed to the Leaders’ commitment to the G20 Brisbane gender target in 2014 and the creation of the W20. She has been key in delivering major OECD contributions and international standards to this agenda, including on tax transparency, artificial intelligence and data, excess capacity, tracking trade and investment measures, climate and growth, among others. In 2019, she launched the Business for Inclusive Growth (B4IG) platform, endorsed by the French G7 Presidency, bringing together 40 major multinational companies committed to reducing inequalities. She has championed the OECD’s work to put people at the centre of policy-making through the provision of targeted policy advice in partnership with the European Union, the Inclusive Growth Initiative, and New Approaches to Economic Challenges (NAEC). She has advanced OECD work on gender equality, the well-being framework, and children. Most recently, she published a NAEC report entitled Systemic Thinking for Policy Making.