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Kurt Van Dender
OECD
Head of Tax and Environment Unit, Centre for Tax Policy and Administration
Bio
Kurt Van Dender is the Head of the Tax and Environment Unit at the OECD’s Centre for Tax Policy and Administration. His work focuses on the use of fiscal and market-based instruments to pursue environmental, transport and climate policy objectives, and on the interactions between environmental taxation and the broader tax system. Kurt also works on the nexus of tax and investment policy, and leads the work on OECD publications on carbon pricing (Effective Carbon Rates) and the taxation of energy (Taxing Energy Use).
Before joining the OECD Centre for Tax Policy and Administration, Kurt was the Chief Economist of the International Transport Forum, and Professor of Economics at the University of California at Irvine. He holds a Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Leuven in Belgium.
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