Management
ACADEMIC management of the Program
Prof. dr. Kees van Raad is the Academic Director of the Program. He is assisted by a Program Coordinator and by teaching assistants (TAs) who teach work shops and tutorials throughout the Fall semester and occasionally during the Spring semester.
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Kees van Raad is chairman of the International Tax Center Leiden, past Professor of International Tax Law at the University of Leiden and of counsel to Loyens & Loeff. He has been a member of IBFD’s Board of Trustees and belongs to the steering group for OECD’s International Network for Tax Research. Further, he is chairman of the International Fiscal Association’s Jury for the annual Mitchell B. Carroll Prize; past member (1986-2006) of its Permanent Scientific Committee, general reporter, member/chair of various IFA congress panels; and since August 2016 an Honorary Member of IFA. He was a member (1999-2012) and chairman (2006-2012) of the Executive Board of the European Association of Tax Law Professors and a member (2003-2015) of the Supervisory Board of the Max Planck Institute for Tax Law and Public Finance in Munich, Germany. Courses: Adv LLM papers, Fundamentals of International Tax Law, Tax Treaties |
ITC Leiden has operated since 2001 a highly successful system of employing within the ITC Leiden Teaching Assistants (TAs). Each year, three to five of our top students are selected to act after their graduation at the end of August, as TAs for the Fall semester of the new academic year, supplementing the courses taught during this period with workshops and tutorials. These TAs will stay in Leiden till Christmas to help out with the teaching and training of the newly arrived students. During the early years of the Program experience has shown that quite a few students suffer difficultly in quickly grasping concepts and approaches to which they were not or only little exposed in their previous university training and tax practice. By dealing with these deficiencies immediately through intensive additional training in the form of tutorials and by revisiting the subjects discussed in the lectures through case studies and workshops, the use of TAs has proven to be a highly effective means of securing the maximum result from the students. As a result, only in exceptional cases students fail the difficult exam in the Tax Treaty course and the students are well prepared for the courses that are taught after Christmas. At the same time, the TAs themselves without exception consider the period they have worked as a TA within ITC Leiden as a unique time that is very gratifying personally, especially when dealing closely with the new students, and extremely helpful professionally in further mastering the complex subject of tax treaties while at the same time honing their communication skills. The following Adv LLM graduates have served as teaching assistant:
| Fall 2019 |
Ian Zahra Phattaraphum Kulchatchai Ying Xiao |
| Fall 2018 |
Eduardo Gutierrez Giuseppe Patti Konstantin Karaianov Leon Wang Ruben Cohen |
| Fall 2017 |
Christopher Bergedahl Dalton Hirata Irina Korobova Mubareke Mahemuti Shimeng Lan |
| Fall 2016 |
Dinis Tracana Edgar Ruiz Sara Vella Bonnici Shaomei Chen Suhas Sagar |
| Fall 2015 |
Paula Beneitez Timothy Borg Olivier Pedro Luz Jessica (Chu) Shi |
| Fall 2014 |
Siddharth Párekh Francesco Parlatore Alex Wang Ivan Zammit |
| Fall 2013 |
Gábor Baranyai Rodrigo Flores Sabrina (Xue) Li Angele Muscat Vigdís Sigurvaldadottir |
| Fall 2012 |
Kadambari Chari Giampaolo Genta Ignacio Gordillo Rocio Rivas Giselle Solis |
| Fall 2011 |
Rachel Galea Monica Hernandez Christoph Kuttner Spyridon Lazanas Francisco Matos |
| Fall 2010 |
Jia-Ying Chua Jan Van Daele José Guerra Claudio Mazzoleni Mónica Sada |
| Fall 2009 |
Laila Benchekroun Yaroslav Ganzenko Vivienne Ong Alfonso Rivolta Eduardo Torretti |
| Fall 2008 |
Chiara Bardini Gustavo Carmona John Ellul Sullivan Carolina Landim |
| Fall 2007 |
Edward Attard Severine Baranger Bruno Carramaschi Kathrin Egli Jose Fernandes |
| Fall 2006 |
Paolo Arginelli Christian Ellul Priscila Silva Alexandra Storckmeijer |
| Fall 2005 |
Walter Andreoni Renata Fontana Giancarlo Matarazzo Mario Tenore |
| Fall 2004 |
Tiago C. Neves Antonio Russo Emiliano Zanotti |
| Fall 2003 |
David Francescucci Stefano Grilli Wolfgang Oepen |
| Fall 2002 |
Emidio Cacciapuoti Raffaele Russo |
| Fall 2001 |
Andrea Ballancin Juanita Bezzina Jacob Rix Riccardo Ubaldini |
Program Staff
Jessica Maxwell Program Coordinator Adv LLM
Jennifer Kenters-Esteban Program Coordinator Adv LLM
Carol Schapira Manager Career Services & Alumni Relations