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Professor Christiana HJI Panayi, BA BCL PhD

Christiana

Professor in Tax Law

Email: c.hji-panayi@qmul.ac.uk
Telephone: +44 (0)20 7882 8105

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Christiana is a Professor in Tax Law at Queen Mary University of London. She teaches on the EU Tax Law, International Tax Law and Transfer Pricing courses of the LLM Programme. Christiana is also a researcher at the Institute for Fiscal Studies and a visiting professor at the Vienna University of Economics and Business and the University of Notre Dame. In the past, Christiana was also an Adjunct Professor of European Union Tax Law at New York University, a Visiting Professor at Sorbonne University (Ecole de droit de la Sorbonne, Université Paris 1), at the University of Luxembourg and at the University of Lausanne.

Christiana has published extensively in the area of EU and International Tax Law and is considered a leading expert in her field. Christiana’s book titled European Union Corporate Tax Law is one of the first books in this area. The first edition was published by Cambridge University Press in 2013 and the second edition in 2021. Christiana is also the author of the book titled Advanced Issues in International and European Tax Law, which was published by Hart Publishing in 2015. This book was cited by the US Treasury in its White Paper on the European Commission’s State Aid Investigations into Transfer Pricing Rulings. Furthermore, Christiana is the co-editor of the Research Handbook on European Union Taxation Law which was published in 2020 by Elgar Publishing.

Christiana speaks regularly at tax conferences and teaches abroad. She has lectured at New York University, the University of Cambridge, Boston College, the University of Lausanne, the Chartered Institute of Taxation, the European Commission, the Academy of European Law, the Vienna University of Economics and Business Administration, the University of Luxembourg, the University of Amsterdam and various other universities. She has also designed and conducted workshops on International and EU tax law for Her Majesty’s Revenue and Customs, the UK Treasury and various south European organizations and accounting firms.

Christiana has been appointed twice as an expert member at the European Commission’s Joint Transfer Pricing Forum (JTPF) and the Platform for Tax Good Governance. She is currently serving her second term as an expert member of the Platform for Tax Good Governance. She is also a member of the CFE’s ECJ Taskforce, a member of the BEPS Monitoring Group, a member of the European Association of Tax Law Professors and a member of the CIOT’s Examination Sub-Committee for the ADIT.

Christiana studied at Oxford University for her BA in Jurisprudence and for the BCL. She also has a PhD from the London School of Economics. Before joining Queen Mary, Christiana worked for Allen and Overy LLP. She is a non-practising solicitor of England and Wales.

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