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Technical Committee Member
Biographies
Disclosures on tax and payments to government
27 May 2019

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Contents
Technical Committee Members ............................................................................................. 3
Daniel Bertossa ....................................................................................................................................................... 3
Andy Cale ................................................................................................................................................................. 3
Alex Cobham ........................................................................................................................................................... 3
Kate Elliot ................................................................................................................................................................. 4
Eelco van der Enden............................................................................................................................................... 4
Richard Murphy....................................................................................................................................................... 4
Robert M. Wilson Jr............................................................................................................................................... 5
GSSB Sponsor .......................................................................................................................... 6
Dr. Kenton D. Swift ............................................................................................................................................... 6

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Technical Committee Members
In accordance with due process, the Global Sustainability Standards Board (GSSB) has selected the following
members to participate in the Technical Committee that will deliberate and recommend new disclosures on tax andpayments to government in 2018. The members represent diverse, multi-stakeholder backgrounds and bring an
excellent combination of relevant knowledge and experience in tax transparency.

Daniel Bertossa
Director of Policy
International, FranceandGovernance,PublicServices

Constituency: Labor
Daniel is an economist and Director of Policy and Governance at PublicServices International (PSI), the Global Union Federation that represents
20 million public sector workers in 160 countries. He is Chair of theICRICT steering group and the Council of Global Unions quality publicservices working group. He specialises in complex multi-disciplinary
public policy and his current work focusses on public sector
management, tax and trade policy.
Previously he was Director of Policy and Strategy at the Department ofPremier and Cabinet, Government of South Australia and a ministerial
advisor in the areas of Public Sector Management, Local Governmentand Planning, Child Protection and Aboriginal Affairs.

Andy Cale
Head of Financial Reporting, Tax, Vodafone Group Plc, UKConstituency: Business
Andy Cale is the Head of Financial Reporting, Tax at Vodafone GroupPlc. He has responsibility for the Group’s internal and external tax
numbers, tax disclosures, risk policy and approach to transparency, as
well as oversight of local operating companies approach to thesematters. Andy is also responsible for ensuring the Group delivers on its
OECD country by country reporting requirements and is part of theteam that produces the annual voluntary award-winning disclosure, Tax
and our Total Economic Contribution to Public Finances.

Alex Cobham
Chief Executive, Tax Justice Network, UK
Constituency: Civil Society OrganizationAlex Cobham is an economist and chief executive of the Tax Justice
Network. He is also a visiting fellow at King’s College, London, a trusteeof ActionAid UK, and a member of the European Commission’s Joint
Transfer Pricing Forum, the ICRICT steering group, of the technicaladvisory group for the Fair Tax Mark, and the policy committee of theCentre for the Study of African Economies (Oxford). His research
focuses on the scale of tax avoidance and tax evasion, and inequality.

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Kate Elliot[Member from May 2019]
Senior Ethical Researcher, Rathbone Greenbank Investments,UKConstituency: Investment
Kate is a Senior Ethical Researcher at Rathbone Greenbank Investments.
Her responsibilities include assessing the social and environmental
performance of companies, monitoring emerging sustainability themes
and coordinating corporate engagement and stewardship activities. She
has been managing investor engagement on responsible tax since 2013.
Kate is a founding member of the UN PRI’s investor taskforce on
Corporate Tax Responsibility and is currently engaged in drafting
investor guidance on disclosure of corporate tax policies, governanceand practices.
Kate joined Rathbones in 2007 after graduating from the University ofBristol with a Masters in philosophy and mathematics.

Eelco van der Enden
Chairman, Tax Policy Group, Accountancy Europe
Partner, PricewaterhouseCoopers, Netherlands
Constituency: Mediating Institutions
Eelco leads PwC’s Tax Strategy & Operations practice and has nearly 30
years of experience. Before joining PwC in 2007 he worked for various
multinationals as head of tax, treasury, risk management and corporate
finance. He supports businesses, governments, tax administrations, intragovernmental organizations and NGO’s in their endeavors to design andimplement sustainable tax compliance strategies. As part of this process,he advises on and implements solid foundations for ameliorating tax
compliance infrastructures by building performance measurement
systems and innovative audit strategies. He is a lecturer at various
European universities, Chairman of the Tax Policy Group ofAccountancy Europe. Eelco has published more than 40 articles on tax
governance and is chief-editor of Tax Assurance Magazine.

Richard Murphy
Professor of Practice in International Political Economy, CityUniversity, London. Also, Director of Tax Research UK, UK
Constituency: Mediating Institution
Richard Murphy is a UK chartered accountant and political economist.
He is one of the founders of the Tax Justice Network since 2002. In thatrole he created the country-by-country reporting concept that is now
being adopted by around a hundred countries worldwide to tackle tax
abuse by multinational corporations.
Richard was appointed as Professor of Practice in International Political
Economy at City, University of London in September 2015 where hisPage 4 of 6

academic research focuses on the political economy of tax, tax gaps andtax abuse. He also directs Tax Research UK and writes, broadcasts andblogs extensively. Richard developed the idea of the Fair Tax Mark andis technical director of that accreditation scheme.
His work as a tax campaigner has given rise to a number of awards
including from the Sheila McKechnie Foundation, honorary fellowshipfrom the Association of International Accountants, and a long runningplace in the Global Tax Top 50 nominated by International Tax Review.

Vaishnavi Ravishankar[Member until April 2019]
Manager, Corporate Governance, UN PRI, UK
Constituency: Investment
Vaishnavi manages corporate governance collaborative engagements andrelated projects at the PRI. She is currently coordinating collaborative
engagement work on corporate tax responsibility with the support of anadvisory committee of investors.
Prior to joining the PRI Vaishnavi worked for CAER, an Australian based
ESG research service provider, for over five years. She provided
assessment of ESG performance of Australian and International
companies, developed ESG position papers and thematic research
papers for clients.
She has a Bachelor of Commerce, majoring in Accounting and Financefrom the Australian National University (ANU) and is working towards
a Graduate Certificate of Law at the ANU.

Robert M. Wilson Jr.
Investment Officer, MFS Investment Management, USA
Constituency: Investment
Robert M. Wilson, Jr., is a research analyst at MFS Investment
Management. His primary role involves working with the firm's analysts
and portfolio managers to integrate environmental, social andgovernance (ESG) issues into the investment decision-making process.
Rob is also responsible for developing thought leadership regarding therole that ESG integration should play in a long-term investment process.
Rob joined MFS in 2013 after six years with American Century, where
he most recently served as a senior equity analyst. Previously, Rob spent
five years at Bain & Company, working as a manager in the Financial
Planning & Analysis group.
Rob earned a bachelor of science in business administration from Boston
University and a Master of Business Administration from the Universityof Chicago.

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GSSB Sponsor
Dr. Kenton D. Swift
Professor of Accounting, and Distinguished Faculty Fellow,
University of Montana, USA
Constituency: Civil Society Organization
Kenton is a professor of accounting at the University of Montana. He
has more than 25 years of experience as an accounting academic atuniversities in the United States, and at Zayed University in the UnitedArab Emirates. Kenton has developed an award-winning course insustainability reporting that he has been teaching at the University ofMontana for many years, and at Aarhus University in Denmark. Inaddition, Kenton has organized and led a workshop for accounting
academics around the world on developing a sustainability reporting
course. His research interests are focused on the quality of sustainability
reporting, with a current focus on greenhouse gas emissions and water
reporting. Kenton is also a licensed Certified Public Accountant and has
more than 25 years of work experience as an accounting professional.

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