Compétences
Short resume
Vikram Chand holds an Adv LLM in International Taxation from the University of Leiden, the Netherlands and PhD in Law from the University of Neuchatel (Switzerland). His doctoral thesis was shortlisted for the prestigious international Frans Vanistendael award that is conferred by the IBFD.
Subsequent to his PhD, Vikram Chand has done research stays at the Max Planck Institute of Tax Law and Public Finance as well as the Institute for Tax Law at KU Leuven. His current research focusses on Digitalization & Taxation, Transfer Pricing Law & Policy, Tax Treaty Law & Policy as well as the tax relations between EU and Third States (notably Switzerland).
He is also an international tax training expert, in particular, a training expert for the OECD's Global Relations Programme pursuant to which he has been mandated to train tax administrations from around the world. In the latter capacity, he has trained tax officials from Russia, China, Indonesia, Uganda, India, Sri Lanka, Nepal, Ukraine, Georgia, Sudan, Bangladesh, Afghanistan, Sierra Leone and Maldives on International Tax Law & Policy related topics. Furthermore, Vikram Chand is a regular speaker in several seminars, conferences and Universities around the globe.
Moreover, he is the Program Director of the Executive Program in Transfer Pricing offered by FDCA / HEC at UNIL. The program is currently entering into its fifth edition. Several participants of the program have already published their technical papers in top international journals under the supervision of Vikram Chand.
In 2019, Vikram Chand was also appointed as the Managing Editor of the Kluwer International Tax Law Blog. He is also regularly involved in the public consultations organized by the OECD and other policy making organizations on various international tax topics.
Prior to his academic experience, Vikram Chand used to work for Ernst & Young, as an international tax consultant.
