Events

6 February 2026 - 7 February 2026

Academic Symposium on the UN Framework Convention on International Tax Cooperation

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ICTD Research Director Martin Hearson and Associate Postdoctoral Fellow Frederik Heitmüller will be speaking at the Academic Symposium on the UN Framework Convention on International Tax Cooperation, hosted by the International Tax Program at the NYU School of Law. They are set to share key findings from ICTD’s comparative study on how global South countries implement international tax standards.

Isaac Agyiri, author of ICTD Working Paper 228 on Ghana and International Tax Standards: A Cautionary Tale?, which is part of the comparative project, will be presenting his case study.

The event will explore and discuss the important developments of the Framework Convention in the evolving architecture of global tax cooperation, and conisder some of the many issues it raises from a scholarly perspective, in relation to substantive content and structural or governance aspects.

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Event Details
Date
6 February 2026 - 7 February 2026
Time
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Martin Hearson

Martin Hearson is a Research Fellow at IDS, Research Director of the ICTD and the International Tax programme lead. His research focuses on the politics of international business taxation, and in particular the relationship between developed and developing countries. Before joining ICTD, Martin was a fellow in international political economy at the London School of Economics and Political Science, teaching courses on political economy and global financial governance.

Frederik Heitmüller

Frederik Heitmüller is an Associate Postdoctoral Fellow with ICTD’s International Tax Team. His research focuses on policies against corporate tax avoidance, the influence of international norms in the Global South and global tax governance. He is also an independent consultant on tax policy. Prior to joining ICTD, he obtained a PhD from Leiden University, Netherlands, where he investigated the political economy of the BEPS Project in the Global South as member of the GLOBTAXGOV project, and taught courses on international and comparative taxation. He has a master’s degree in political science from Sciences Po Bordeaux and University of Stuttgart.
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Keywords: global tax governance, international tax, international tax standards, UN Framework Convention on International Tax Cooperation, UN Tax Convention
Image credit: © Stephanie Alkoussa
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