Nicole Welch

Director of Treaty & Transfer Pricing Operations, LB&I at IRS

Nicole Welch is the director of the Treaty and Transfer Pricing Operations practice area in the IRS Large Business and International division, where she is responsible for responsible for planning, developing, directing, and monitoring the administration of U.S. tax treaties and related competent authority programs and the IRS’s transfer pricing examination work across the country. She previously served as director of the Advance Pricing and Mutual Agreement program (APMA), where she oversaw the negotiation and resolution of all mutual agreement procedure (MAP) and advance pricing agreement cases arising under U.S. tax treaties. Nicole has served as a delegate to several OECD working groups and is a vice chair of the Forum on Tax Administration MAP Forum. Before joining the IRS in 2012, Nicole handled international tax planning and controversy matters at a law firm in Washington, DC.