Professor Dr Florian Haase, M.I.Tax holds a Chair for Tax Law at IU International University of Applied Sciences, Germany. He earned a doctorate degree in commercial law from Martin-Luther-University Halle-Wittenberg, Germany in 2004 and a “Master of International Taxation”-degree from Hamburg University, Germany in 2002. He is guest professor on the postgraduate course “Master of International Taxation” at Hamburg University and a lecturer at the Academy of the German Ministry of Finance (“Bundesfinanzakademie”). He was also the academic National Reporter for Germany on Subject 2 of the International Fiscal Association`s World Congress 2019 in London. Before joining IU International University of Applied Sciences, he was a tax professor at HSBA Hamburg School of Business Administration, Germany.
Professor Dr Georg Kofler, LL.M. (NYU), is a Professor for International Tax Law at the Institute for Austrian and International Tax Law at WU, Austria. He has worked in the field of taxation, especially European and international taxation, for more than two decades in various positions in academia, government practice, and as an independent expert. He currently serves, inter alia, as a Vice-Chair of the Permanent Scientific Committee (PSC) of the International Fiscal Association (IFA) and as the Chair of the CFE Tax Advisers Europe's ECJ Task Force. He was a visiting professor at the University of Florida, USA (2013 and 2018), the University of Sydney, Australia (2016), and New York University, USA (2019). Before joining WU in 2020, he was a tax professor and head of the tax law institute at the University of Linz, Austria.