OECD appoints EY’s VanderWolk to lead tax treaties, transfer pricing, financial transactions division

The OECD on June 2 announced that Jefferson VanderWolk will take over as Head of the Tax Treaty, Transfer Pricing & Financial Transactions Division at the Centre for Tax Policy and Administration (CPTA) in July.

VanderWolk, an Executive Director at Ernst & Young in Washington since 2013, will support the OECD director of the CTPA in the area of taxation, providing strategic direction on tax treaties, transfer pricing, and financial transactions and playing a key role in ongoing work on base erosion and profit shifting.

He will replace Marlies de Ruiter, who has held the post since February 2012.

At EY, VanderWolk’s work focuses on corporate and international tax legislative and regulatory developments. He has also served as International Tax Counsel to the US Senate Finance Committee, Special Counsel at the US IRS Office of Chief Counsel, Associate Professor of Law at the Chinese University of Hong Kong and the University of Hong Kong, Head of Tax for the Asia Pacific Region at Merrill Lynch in Hong Kong, and was a partner at Baker & McKenzie and Deloitte.

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