Monalissa Cairncross

Assistant Director – Group A; APMA Program at IRS

My career as a transfer pricing professional started in 2009 as a consultant at PwC. Over the past 15 years, I have developed expertise in many areas related to transfer pricing and worked with multiple U.S. treaty partners on complex issues across various industries. Since 2012, I have held multiple roles with the advance pricing and mutual agreement program (APMA) within the IRS including senior economist, front line manager, and Assistant Director for Group A. As part of my current role as the Assistant Director, I oversee a group of approximately 50 people including 4 managers and I am responsible for overseeing the relationship and negotiating APA/MAP cases with multiple treaty partners including India, Italy, Sweden, UK, Israel, Ireland, Finland, Switzerland, Chile, Luxembourg, and Denmark. I am also actively involved with external initiatives such as OECD trainings and the FTA MAP Forum.