Carla De Pietro

International taxation

European taxation

Taxation and sustainable development

Developing countries

Tax policy

Global tax governance

Taxes and globalization

Carla De Pietro works as an Associate Professor at the Fiscal Institute Tilburg of Tilburg University. She is also the Academic Director of the Master’s program in International Business Taxation at Tilburg University. She is an approved expert on the UNDP ExpRes Roster, a consultant deployment mechanism at the United Nations within the framework of the United Nations Development Programme to realize the Sustainable Development Goals.

She is also one of the international coordinators of the EUCOTAX Wintercourse, a leading academic program that brings together an extensive international network of 13 universities worldwide, uniting leading academics in taxation.

Her research focuses on international and European taxation, also taking into consideration tax policy and tax governance aspects. She publishes in leading academic journals and book series in the field. Her PhD thesis, Tax Treaty Override, was completed through a joint PhD agreement between the University of Bologna and Tilburg University and was published in the EUCOTAX Series on European Taxation by Kluwer Law International. She is also the editor of the book New Perspectives on Fiscal State Aid – Legitimacy and Effectiveness of Fiscal State Aid Control, published in the same series.

She developed the project Fiscal State Aid and the Role of National Judges within the EU Commission’s Modernization Programme, which was awarded funding by the European Commission, further demonstrating her contributions to the field.

In addition, she has developed a master’s course on Taxation and Sustainable Development and organizes a series of high-level seminars on the topic at Tilburg University, featuring discussions with leading academics and policymakers.

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