Mr. Tomas Balco has been appointed Head of the Transfer Pricing Unit at the Centre for Tax Policy and Administration with effect as of September 4^th, 2017. TomasBalco has been working at Slovak Republic’s Ministry of Finance since 2014, where he served as General Counsel and was head of the International Tax Unit and the Transfer Pricing Team. In this capacity, he played a key role in the tax policy area of the Slovak Presidency of the EU Council in 2016. Prior to that, Tomas Balco was a professor at KIMEP University and visiting professor and lecturer at other universities in Europe as well as at the African Tax Institute at University of Pretoria and the Director of the Central Asian Tax Research Center in Kazakhstan. He has also held positions with Deloitte and PricewaterhouseCoopers, the International Bureau of Fiscal Documentation, the International Tax Units of the governments of the Czech Republic and Chile, and the European Commission’s DG-TAXUD. He has been a participant in the work of the UN Committee of Experts on International Taxation, and as a tax policy and capacity building expert, he has also worked with ministries of finance and tax administrations in Europe, Cent...