John Peterson

Head of Department, Cross Border and International Taxation (CBI) at OECD

John Peterson is the Head of Cross Border and International Tax Division at Centre for Tax Policy and Administration (CTPA) at the OECD. He leads the teams responsible for Transfer Pricing, the Taxation of the Digital Economy and the Global Minimum Tax as well as the work undertaken by the Forum on Harmful Tax Practices. Prior to his current role he was Head of Unit at the OECD where he led the work on the design of the Global Minimum Tax and was responsible for drafting the Mandatory Disclosure of CRS Avoidance Arrangements and the rules on Neutralizing Hybrid and Branch Mismatch Arrangements. Prior to joining the OECD, John was a tax partner at Minter Ellison Rudd Watts. John has LLM from NYU and a BCL from Oxford University and has previously worked as a tax lawyer in New York, London and New Zealand.