Speaker Profile

Alma de Bruijn, International Tax Director, PwC Ireland

Alma is an International Tax Director in PwC Dublin, assisting clients on a broad range of international tax, including Pillar Two. Alma has advised US, Irish and other multinational companies across many areas including international cross border structuring, group reorganizations, IP planning and debt structuring.

Alma holds a degree in Commerce from University College Cork, is an associate of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in Ireland and is a Chartered Tax Adviser and member of the Irish Tax Institute.

Jonathan Culver, International Tax Partner, Deloitte China, Hong Kong

Jonathan is an International Tax Partner in Deloitte Hong Kong. His industry focus is financial services. He has experience working in various investment banks, including a large Australian headquartered bank.

He is heavily involved in policy developments and regularly engages with the Hong Kong Inland Revenue Department, Financial Services Treasury Bureau and OECD on a range of matters, including Pillar 2.

He is also the chairman of the HKICPA International Tax committee.

He co-leads Deloitte’s Pillar Two offering across APAC and is member of Deloitte’s global technical group. He advises clients across a range of areas including strategic positioning, impact analysis, readiness, and mitigation.

Dave Murray, Head of Tax Policy & Sustainability at Anglo American (UK)

Dave Murray is the Head of Tax Policy & Sustainability at Anglo American. Before joining Anglo in April 2020, Dave was an International Tax Policy Director at PwC, prior to which he was the EU & OECD Tax Policy Director at General Electric. Prior to that, Dave had already spent time working for Anglo American, after starting his career at Deloitte. Dave has experience across a range of domestic and international tax policy areas, and has a particular interest in tax morality, transparency, and sustainability, as well as the ongoing debates around the impact of globalisation, digitalisation and decarbonisation of the economy on tax bases and tax systems. Dave chairs the CIOT International Tax Committee, is a vice chair of the Business@OECD Tax Committee, and chairs or participates in on several other tax committees and working groups including at the CBI, ICMM and The B-Team.

Professor Keith Engel, CEO of South African Institute of Taxation

Professor Keith Engel is the Chief Executive Officer for the South African Institute of Taxation. As part of his core duties managing the Institute, he is heavily engaged in tax at a policy, legislative and interpretative level (e.g., with National Treasury, Parliament, SARS, the Davis Tax Committee and the private sector). His role also includes presentations and participation in a wide range of South African tax and regional African tax issues for technical audiences and is repeatedly engaging with the media. Outside of the Institute, he regularly teaches at the Wits University as an adjunct professor and provides lectures at other universities. Professor Engel is well known for his leading roles in the formulation of tax legislation at the National Treasury from 2000 to 2013.

Professor Engel has engaged in a broad range of tax issues with a special emphasis on international and transactional tax. In more recent days, he has been focusing more heavily on individual wealth issues at both a domestic and cross-border level. He has a good grasp of residency and domicile issues involving South Africa, the United States and the United Kingdom.