Board’s Blindspot: Tax Strategy and Risks in a VUCA World

Professor David Rosenbloom

Director for International Tax Program New York University School of Law

H. David Rosenbloom is an attorney specializing in international tax matters. He is a member of Caplin & Drysdale, Chartered, a law firm in Washington, DC, and retired in May 2025 as the James S. Eustice Visiting Professor of Taxation and Director of the International Tax Program at New York University School of Law. Born in New York, NY in 1941, Mr. Rosenbloom attended Princeton University, the University of Florence in Florence, Italy, and Harvard Law School. He served as President of the Harvard Law Review, assistant to Ambassador Arthur Goldberg at the U.S. Mission to the United Nations, and clerk to Justice Abe Fortas at the United States Supreme Court. Mr Rosenbloom was International Tax Counsel and Director of the Office of International Tax Affairs in the United States Treasury Department from January 1978 through January 1981. A frequent speaker and author on tax subjects, he has taught international taxation and related subjects at Stanford, Columbia, the University of Pennsylvania, Harvard, and New York University Law Schools, and at educational institutions in Taipei, Mexico, Italy, Australia, Germany, Switzerland, Brazil, Portugal, Austria, and South Africa. He has also served as a tax policy consultant for the U.S. Treasury, the OECD, and the World Bank, and in Eastern Europe, the former Soviet Union, Senegal, Malawi, the Baltic countries, Colombia, and Ukraine.

Professor Dr René Matteotti

Professor of Law Chair in Swiss, European and International Tax Law Attorney at Law, LL.M.

Prof Dr René Matteotti is a tax attorney and a tenured Professor of Law with a specialization in Swiss, European and international tax law at the University of Zurich. His areas of expertise particularly include corporate tax law and international tax law (including transfer pricing). René has long-standing practical experience as a tax attorney in representing domestic and international clients before tax authorities and courts. Hereby he particularly supports enterprises in the resolution of disputes in the course of tax audits, in tax ruling requests and mutual agreement procedures. As an expert, he also regularly provides legal opinions on complex tax law issues.René is, amongst others, a member of the Tax Chapter of EXPERTsuisse, a member of the Federal VAT advisory committee appointed by the Federal Council, editor-in-chief of the academic tax journal ASA and president of the Swiss Association of Tax Law Professors. He is author of numerous academic articles on topical tax issues and regularly gives lectures at conferences in Switzerland and abroad.

Ms. Ng Pei San

Tax Director @ IRAS

Ms Ng Pei San leads the Transfer Pricing and Dispute Resolution Branch in Inland Revenue Authority of Singapore (IRAS), which handles transfer pricing policy formulation, negotiation of Advance Pricing Arrangements and Mutual Agreement Procedures relating to transfer pricing issues with foreign tax authorities. She has experience in tax policy work and international taxation matters.

Mr. Vineet Rachh

Vice President @ Procter & Gamble

Mr Vineet Rachh, Vice President at Procter & Gamble, leads taxes for the Asia Pacific, Middle East, and Africa region, bringing over 30 years of experience across Asia, Africa, and Europe. Renowned for his expertise in global taxation, Vineet specializes in areas such as Tax Controversies, International Taxation, Transfer Pricing and Tax Policy. He has represented at global tax forums (OECD, G20 and ATAF) and collaborated with academic institutions on tax programs, including the University of Lausanne, WU (Vienna University), and the Tax Academy of Singapore.He also serves as a Member of Tax Academy’s Curriculum & Examination Development Committee.

Ms. Samantha Xu

Chief Financial Officer at BW LPG Ltd

Mr. Hari Subramanian

Managing Director @ HABA Ventures

Mr. Sam Sim

SMU STARI Academic Expert Panel Board Member

Sam was taught by Prof Rosenbloom at the NYU School of Law Masters of Tax Program. In his academic capacity, he has taught taxation at the graduate level for more than 10 years, including for SUSS Masters of Tax program, Leiden International Tax Centre Executive programs, Fudan University, Universitas Indonesia and the IBFD. He has published various books and articles with Wolter Kluwer CCH, Lexis-Nexis, Bloomberg BNA and IBFD. He had also served as senior advisor to Prof Dr Jeffrey Owens at the Vienna University (WU) Global Tax Policy Centre, Senior Fellow at the Tax Academy and is presently member of NYU’s International Tax Program Practice Council. He was previously an examiner and member of the UK Chartered Taxation Institute Advance Diploma in International Tax (ADIT) Committee. Sam held global responsibilities at a Forbes 50 Tech MNE, a FTSE 100 international bank and a sovereign-owned fund. He was previously a tax attorney in New York and served as Asia President and subsequently Regional Vice-President (Europe, Middle-East, Africa, Asia and Latin America) of the Tax Executive Institute, Washington DC. He has a multidisciplinary background with graduate degrees in law (NYU LLM), Accounting (SMU) and economics (Cambridge).