Kees van Raad (1946) is Professor of International Tax Law at the University of Leiden (The Netherlands), Chairman of the International Tax Center Leiden and Director of the Leiden LLM Program in International Taxation. After obtaining his law degree from Leiden, and a postgraduate degree from Georgetown University (Washington DC, USA) he worked for several years at International Division of the Netherlands Ministry of Finance. In 1986 he obtained a doctorate in law (dissertation: Nondiscrimination in International Tax Law [Kluwer, 1986]) and was appointed to the newly created chair in International Tax Law at the University of Leiden. In addition to his teaching and researching, and supervising doctoral dissertations in Leiden, he serves as a judge at two Netherlands tax courts, specializing in international cases, and acts as an outside consultant to (tax) law firms.

       In addition to writings on tax theory and policy and on corporate tax law, Kees van Raad has written extensively on subjects of international tax law, books, chapters for various loose-leaf editions, many articles in legal periodicals and a report on nondiscrimination for which he was awarded in 1982 the Netherlands Biannual Award for Publications on Taxation. Currently, he is a Member of the Permanent Scientific Committee of the International Fiscal Association, and chair of the Academic Committee of the Association of European Tax Professors. Further, he serves as a Contributing Editor of Intertax (International Tax Review) and a Member of the Editorial Board of the Series on International Taxation (Kluwer Law International) and of various Dutch and foreign tax periodicals.

       Kees van Raad has been a visiting professor at various foreign law and business schools: University of Florida, USA (1982, 1997, 2003), Universities of Stockholm and Uppsala, Sweden (1987), University of London, UK (1990), Emory University, USA (1991), New York University, USA (1992, 2002, 2004), Bocconi University, Italy (1993, 1994, 2002), University of California (Hastings College of the Law (1996)), the Free University of Brussels (1997) and the University of Sydney (1998), Xiamen University (China, 2004).

       January 2005