Who We Are
The task force brings together expertise in organizing, policy, research, and cooperative development to advance solidarity levies and community-led economic power.
Secretariat Lead
Laurence Tubiana
Chief Executive Officer of the European Climate Foundation, Dean of the Paris Climate School at Sciences Po Paris, and a key architect of the 2015 Paris Agreement
Country Sherpas
Ambassador Benoît Faraco
Ambassador in Charge of Climate Change Negotiations, Carbon-Free Energy, and Climate Risk Prevention
Dr. Arnold McIntyre
Principal Technical Advisor, Barbados
Ambassador Ali Mohamed
Climate Change Envoy, Kenya
Regional Ambassadors
Europe
Jennifer Morgan
Former German State Secretary and Special Envoy for International Climate Action
Former Executive Director of Greenpeace International.
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Expert Group
Ramy Youssef Mohamed
Chair to the Ad Hoc Committee to Draft Terms of Reference for a United Nations Framework Convention on International Tax Cooperation
Vera Songwe
Chair and founder of Liquidity and Sustainability Facility & Co- Chair of High-Level Expert Panel on Climate Finance
Amar Bhattacharya
Senior fellow, Center for Sustainable Development, Global Economy and Development program at Brookings
Dora Benedek
Deputy Division Chief at the Tax policy division of the Fiscal Affairs Department of the International Monetary Fund
Luiz Awazu Pereira da Silva
Former Deputy General Manager of the Bank for International Settlements (BIS) (2015-2023)
Marilou Uy
Non-Resident Senior Fellow for the Global Economic Governance
Attiya Waris
Associate professor, Commercial Law Department, School of Law
Cecil Morden
Chief Director, Economic Tax Analysis at National Treasury, South Africa
Jeromin Zetellmeyer
Director of Bruegel
Logan Worth
Executive Secretary, African Tax Administration Forum
Michael Keen
Ushioda Fellow, Tokyo College – University of Tokyo, Senior fellow Ferdi. Former Deputy Director of the Public Finance Department, International Monetary Fund
Professor Benito Müller
Managing Director of Oxford Climate Policy and Visiting Professor at the Environmental Change Institute, University of Oxford
Pascal Saint Amans
Professor of Taxes at Lausanne University and partner at the Brunswick group
Kurt Van Dender
Acting Head of the Tax Policy and Statistics Division, OECD
Ma Jun
Founder and President of the Institute of Finance and Sustainability (IFS, Beijing)
Cheng Lin
Director of the Centre for International Collaborations at the Beijing Institute of Finance and Sustainability (BIFS)
Shari Spiegel
Director of the Financing for Sustainable Development Office (FSDO), UN
Avinash Persaud
Special Advisor on Climate Change to the President of the Inter-American Development Bank
Tatiana Falcao
Senior international tax and climate policy expert
Gina McCarthy
Former White House National Climate Advisor in the Biden administration and EPA Administrator in the Obama administration
Pilar Garrido
OECD Director for Development Co-operation
Esther Duflo
2019 Nobel Laureate in Economics; Professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT); President of the Paris School of Economics
Legal Experts
Clémentine Baldon
Founding and Managing Partner at Baldon Avocats and Legal Expert for the Secretariat
Daniel Mulé
Independent Policy and Legal Consultant and Legal Expert for the Secretariat
Our Team
Yussuf HUSSEIN
Regional Director Africa, Climate Vulnerable Forum and V20 Finance Ministers
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