Pilar Espejo

Global Head of Tax & Policy Assurance at BNY

Speaker

Pilar joined BNY in 2015 and heads the Tax and Policy Assurance team within Global Tax Product. Pilar’s team is responsible for providing independent risk and policy direction in respect of custody product and tax changes to BNY.

Before joining BNY, Pilar worked for over 13 years as an International Tax specialist with EY in London and KPMG in London and Australia. Prior to this, she worked as a Tax and M&A lawyer with Andersen in Lima, Peru.

Pilar holds a Masters in Law (LLM) from the London School of Economics and a degree in Law and Political Sciences from the University of Lima (Peru).

She is also a former chair of the Tax Issues Committee at the Association of Global Custodians (AGC) and the Treaty & Withholding Tax Working Group at The Investment Association, and has been an active member of other industry groups including AFME