Biography:
Hafiz Choudhury works with Ministries of Finance and tax administrations worldwide on economic, tax and budget policy through his firm,
The M Group, Inc.; he also advises select private sector clients on tax policy matters.
He has contributed since 2012 to the design of international tax norms at the UN Committee of Experts on Taxation and is e.g. the general editor of the UN Transfer Pricing Manual (all 3 editions) and the UN Extractives Taxation Handbook (second edition).
He leads the work on guidance on tax policy for energy transition and has worked with UNDP on tax issues in energy transition in more than 20 countries. He advises a software business that builds international tax and trade decision support, modelling and analysis tools (www.reganalytics.com) and is an adjunct professor at Texas A&M University Law School, teaching transfer pricing and international tax risk modules for the international tax LLM program.
Hafiz has worked in tax policy and administration issues in the UK, India, Seychelles, Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan, Indonesia, Tanzania, Zimbabwe, Namibia, Thailand, Malaysia, Mongolia, Poland, Sri Lanka, Sierra Leone, Ethiopia, Myanmar, Nigeria, Qatar, Latvia and China. He started his career with HM Board of Inland Revenue in the UK as an FT Inspector in 1987; he was then with the IBFD in Amsterdam, The Netherlands, in technical and managerial roles from 1993 to 2006.